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theogravity on Sept 14, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to build a IP geolocation database from scratc...

How does that work with edge servers that use anycast to assume the same IP across different regions?

SnorkelTan on Sept 14, 2023 [–]

Aren’t any cast addresses a specific subset of ips and thus knowable? Iirc, each autonomous system is allocated anycast ip space?

sgjohnson on Sept 14, 2023 | [–]

No. Any prefix can be anycasted.

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