Re: IETF routing me through Hong Kong to get to www.IETF.ORG ?

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CloudFlare does anycast.  Where you go depends on where you are.

Regards,
-drc

> On Nov 30, 2015, at 6:24 PM, John Levine <johnl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> IP Address (IPv6) 	2400:cb00:2048:1::6814:155
>> 		        (www.ietf.org.cdn.cloudflare-dnssec.net.)
> 
> The IETF website is handled through Cloudflare:
> 
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;www.ietf.org.			IN	AAAA
> 
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> www.ietf.org.		632	IN	CNAME	www.ietf.org.cdn.cloudflare-dnssec.net.
> www.ietf.org.cdn.cloudflare-dnssec.net.	300 IN AAAA 2400:cb00:2048:1::6814:55
> www.ietf.org.cdn.cloudflare-dnssec.net.	300 IN AAAA 2400:cb00:2048:1::6814:155
> 
> For some reason, Cloudflare uses a block of IPv6 addresses from APNIC,
> even though they are in California.  When I do a traceroute from my
> cable modem in New York, it is two hops past an he.net router in New
> York City and pings in about 40ms which tells me that the addresses
> may be from Hong Kong but the servers are in San Francisco.
> 
> R's,
> John
> 

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