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Re:Roll Your Own CDN by kuon on Friday August 01, 2014 @06:44PM (#8123228)
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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Re:Roll Your Own CDN by nly on Saturday August 02, 2014 @02:17PM (#8125509)
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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Re:Roll Your Own CDN by joesavage on Friday August 01, 2014 @07:14PM (#8123343)
Right you are. Just updated the article to be more accurate on this matter.
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