Also, I’m not sure if you’ve seen this already but I’ve been experimenting with a geographically diverse relay using geo DNS to redirect to the closest server with failover if a server fails. It provides some of the benefits of anycast but not all. I’m considering how this could be made less reliant on a single GeoDNS provider. Details of what I have set up are here:
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Haven’t seen that yet. Amazing.
Some reading for me.