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Re:Internet traffic for Google, Facebook, Apple was briefly ... by sp332 on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @10:34AM (#15914840)
8.8.8.8 is already an IP address so DNS is not involved. The anycast is handled by just BGP.
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Re:Internet traffic for Google, Facebook, Apple was briefly ... by kelnos on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @11:22AM (#15915179)
I think the parent meant that anycast is often used for DNS servers, not that a DNS lookup is used to find the closest Google DNS server.
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Re:Internet traffic for Google, Facebook, Apple was briefly ... by jsjohnst on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @08:10PM (#15919191)
Kelnos was correct, the service that 8.8.8.8 provides is DNS, hence the relevance when talking about 8.8.8.8 being anycasted.
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Re:Internet traffic for Google, Facebook, Apple was briefly ... by sp332 on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @08:12PM (#15919202)
Man, I must have been asleep this afternoon because I could not figure out what a bare IP address had to do with DNS. I get it now.
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