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Re:Comcast, Mozilla strike privacy deal to encrypt DNS looku... by presumably on Thursday June 25, 2020 @11:54AM (#23642080)
What you're claiming is false.

Cloudflare has over 200 PoPs; in your own name servers, you can use the Cloudflare Resolver's IP (which will be a "close to the user" IP, not 1.1.1.1) to do geotargeting and serve from your closest IP address/server.

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Re:Comcast, Mozilla strike privacy deal to encrypt DNS looku... by rydre on Thursday June 25, 2020 @12:23PM (#23642417)
>What you're claiming is false. Cloudflare has over 200 PoPs; in your own name servers, you can use the Cloudflare Resolver's IP (which will be a "close to the user" IP, not 1.1.1.1) to do geotargeting and serve from your closest IP address/server.

What if my server is closer than cloudflare? Why is cloudflare artificially limiting?

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Re:Comcast, Mozilla strike privacy deal to encrypt DNS looku... by willcipriano on Thursday June 25, 2020 @02:04PM (#23643612)
I use cloudflare precisely because I don't want clients hitting the server directly. That's its entire purpose. For both caching and anti-ddos reasons.
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Re:Comcast, Mozilla strike privacy deal to encrypt DNS looku... by sprayk on Thursday June 25, 2020 @05:48PM (#23646161)
rydre is specifically talking about the perspective of someone running a non-cloudflare CDN or possibly a site that does their own CDN with DNS rather than anycast because they explicitly don't want to use cloudflare for whatever reason. They are not talking about someone just hosting a site.
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