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Do Cloudflare's floating egress IPs probe in a way where you can easily geolocate them?

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-servers-dont-own-ips-...


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reincoderyesterday at 9:23 AM

If it is an anycast IP address, we have hints of all locations. However, because we have to produce a standard IP geolocation product, we can only select one address. So, we choose the address we find from a reliable geofeed and designate the IP address as "anycast" in the API response.

Internally, we have an anycast database. I believe we can also provide all the location hints we see for each anycast IP. It is generally niche data though.