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Re:CloudFlare Is Now a Google Cloud Platform Technology Partner by zuck9 on Monday April 13, 2015 @11:54AM (#9368334)
Yes. The NS records list reddit nameservers (usually you need to use CF nameservers for using their service, using your own nameservers require more config) but the A records list CF IPs (free users just get two IPs, reddit has quite a lot)

    reddit.com.		22	IN	A	198.41.209.143
    reddit.com.		22	IN	A	198.41.208.141
    reddit.com.		22	IN	A	198.41.209.137
    reddit.com.		22	IN	A	198.41.208.139
    reddit.com.		22	IN	A	198.41.208.143
    reddit.com.		22	IN	A	198.41.208.142
    reddit.com.		22	IN	A	198.41.209.139
    reddit.com.		22	IN	A	198.41.209.141
    reddit.com.		22	IN	A	198.41.209.138
    reddit.com.		22	IN	A	198.41.209.140
    reddit.com.		22	IN	A	198.41.208.138
    reddit.com.		22	IN	A	198.41.208.137
    reddit.com.		22	IN	A	198.41.209.142
    reddit.com.		22	IN	A	198.41.208.140
    reddit.com.		22	IN	A	198.41.209.136
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Re:CloudFlare Is Now a Google Cloud Platform Technology Partner by humanarity on Monday April 13, 2015 @01:52PM (#9369182)
So is that like load-balancing out from reddit.com to all those IPs, is that the purpose of so many?
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Re:CloudFlare Is Now a Google Cloud Platform Technology Partner by breakingcups on Tuesday April 14, 2015 @07:05AM (#9373314)
Huh, interesting. I didn't even know they'd allow you to do that. I assumed CF requires full DNS control to allow quickly switching over IP's in case of DOS and such.
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Re:CloudFlare Is Now a Google Cloud Platform Technology Partner by zuck9 on Tuesday April 14, 2015 @09:03AM (#9373856)
HN does it via CNAMEs (this doesn't require manual editing of the IPs and CF can do it when they need to):

    news.ycombinator.com.   76  IN  CNAME   news.ycombinator.com.cdn.cloudflare.net.
    news.ycombinator.com.cdn.cloudflare.net. 124 IN A 198.41.191.47
    news.ycombinator.com.cdn.cloudflare.net. 124 IN A 198.41.190.47
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