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Re:Noticing when an app is only hosted in us-east-1 by phamilton on Thursday June 29, 2023 @06:23PM (#36527646)
Just a nit, but aren't DNS lookups going to be independent of distance to us-east-1?
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Re:Noticing when an app is only hosted in us-east-1 by onion2k on Friday June 30, 2023 @04:51AM (#36532169)
That depends on where the name server is. If a website is only hosted on us-east-1 it's common to see the canonical name server being in the US as well.
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