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When i ping 8.8.8.8 from my home computer (europe) i get around 26 ms latency.
When i ping 8.8.8.8 from a server(US) i get around 1 ms latency.
When i ping my (US) server from home (europe) i have 130 ms latency.

I know that i can setup a custom DNS/nameservers and attach it to my domain so it can be used to geographically resolve domain names / route traffic to the closest server/loadbalancer.

However, as my experiment above showed apparently something similar is possible with ip's?

Can someone explain to me how this works / how i can replicate it?

lolwin
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This is possible using Anycast-BGP. A quite good explanation can be found here: https://www.maxcdn.com/blog/anycast-ip-routing-used-maxcdn/

Thomas Stinner
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