Question regarding anycasting in CDN setup

Thu Feb 23 08:05:21 UTC 2012

Great explanation .

Thanks everyone

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Anurag Bhatia
http://anuragbhatia.com
On Feb 9, 2012 1:37 AM, "Joe Provo" <nanog-post at rsuc.gweep.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 01:28:07AM +0530, Anurag Bhatia wrote:
> [snip]
> > I have never did such setup, but I assume it works as you say. I wonder
> how
> > it finds a US based system from IP quickly (since it's DNS server)?
>
>
> Drop "ip geolocation" or "internet geolocation" into Your Favorite
> Search Engine. Short answer is some folks just refer to databases
> published/generated by others, some folks use DNS guesses, and some
> folks measure packet arrival. And most often, there is a combination
> of methods used.
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