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by tristor 1270 days ago
The great thing about anycast is the IPs are the same for everyone, it’s just which POP routing converges on that is different. DNS and anycast are combined primarily for load balancing and failover. Anyone can get and use the IPs directly with dig.
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Right, but unless it's documented how do you know that the DNS entry won't change? They could change infra so it's DNS load-balanced instead of anycast and still at time.cloudflare.com

It wasn't clear but I provided the IP so others could validate it's the same for them and (in the future) that it hasn't changed.