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Hmmm, does that actually improve speeds for Netflix, or was that somebody just doing it because they thought it would? It's been a while since I've looked into
by stephen_g 9y ago
Hmmm, does that actually improve speeds for Netflix, or was that somebody just doing it because they thought it would?
It's been a while since I've looked into it, but I thought that Netflix's devices peer with the provider's routers and intercept traffic through that way, so the DNS server shouldn't matter (because they would share the same IPs as the publicly accessible CDN load balancers).
I thought most CDNs worked that way now - using DNS never really worked well.
- hug 9y agoAnecdata: Office 365 will put you on an APAC CDN instead of an AU CDN if you use Google Public DNS from Australia, but not so if you use local ISP DNS (like, say, Telstra's).
- voltagex_ 9y agoI'm using Internode's DNS here and I get servers from Hong Kong and Singapore mostly.
- philsnow 9y agoI have only my own anecdata, which strongly support the hypothesis.