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by kuon 4341 days ago
I'd like to point out that google DNS among others uses anycast and are in reality composed of multiple servers geographically distributed, even if there is a single IP.
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nly 4340 days ago
The IP you query as a client is anycast, but I'd wager recursive queries out of their caches come from geo-friendly IPs.
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joesavage 4341 days ago
Right you are. Just updated the article to be more accurate on this matter.
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