Anycast Routing: How Cloudflare Routes to Nearest Server is part of the Pro tier — advanced networking topics including BGP routing, Zero Trust, DDoS attacks, QUIC, TLS certificate chains, and more.
This scenario covers
How anycast assigns the same IP to hundreds of servers worldwide — BGP announces the same prefix from every PoP, routing naturally delivers users to the nearest location, and how this enables global DDoS absorption.
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