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>The reason? Advertising. Or the ability to accurately direct users to the nearest POP.
by MertsA 10y ago
>The reason? Advertising.
Or the ability to accurately direct users to the nearest POP.
- bluejekyll 10y agoYes, for people who don't know, this is how many things like directing users to a closer TLS endpoint for HTTP such that the overall connection suffers less latency.
- fidget 10y agoIsn't anycast ip usually used for that instead?
- bluejekyll 10y agoIt entirely depends, anycast is great for getting a request to the closest DNS endpoint via routing weight rules. After that, there are many options. But the GP was specifically mentioning a valid use case where this is applicable and not shady.