[possibleworlds]

Apologies in advance if this is too off topic, it’s something that has been bugging me for a while and I wanted to mention it somewhere.

I occasionally use the Unifi Wifiman app to quickly test my network, even though I don’t use Unifi gear.

One reason I like it is as soon as you open the app you see a bunch of latency metrics for various domains.

X is one of the default test domains. I don’t know when this happened but x.com does not seem to be running anycast in Australia anymore, I get 110ms latency to x (for many this would be 130 to 160 or higher, my provider uses premium transit). A traceroute shows the server I am hitting is in Japan.

Why? This is highly irregular, I can’t imagine any other major website not having a POP in Australia.