GeoDNS vs Anycast: Geographic Traffic Steering 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 GeoDNS returns different IP addresses based on where a DNS query originates, how Anycast routes users to the nearest data center at the BGP level, the latency differences between them, failover behavior, and why major CDNs use both together.
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