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by manigandham 3388 days ago
Yes, they have a big address space and announce all ips from every location: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-architecture-elimina...

Pretty much all major CDNs use anycast today for load balancing, rolling downtime and security/ddos protection. Http/tcp connections are usually short-lived, relatively cheap to setup (since it's an edge network anyway) and BGP route updates don't happen that often.

LinkedIn switched to anycast too after testing: https://engineering.linkedin.com/network-performance/tcp-ove...