Ping faster than light
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Track title: Puzzle Game 3 Looping
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00:00 Ping Faster Than Light
01:02 Accepted Answer Score 411
01:43 Thank you
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Rise to the top 3% as a developer or hire one of them at Toptal: https://topt.al/25cXVn
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Music by Eric Matyas
https://www.soundimage.org
Track title: Puzzle Game 3 Looping
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Chapters
00:00 Ping Faster Than Light
01:02 Accepted Answer Score 411
01:43 Thank you
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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/921221/p...
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Content licensed under CC BY-SA
https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/lice...
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Tags
#networking #ping
#avk47
ACCEPTED ANSWER
Score 411
As you can see from the output, you aren’t actually pinging some server in Arizona or even the United States. Apparently, they decided to protect their website with Cloudflare, which employs a content distribution network to even the load. A CDN works with many nodes, each servicing a (geographic) region. That means the node you’re pinging is very close to you.
Because Cloudflare uses Anycast (Wikipedia info) with all of their data centers, you’ll connect to the same IP address no matter where you are in the world. Every data center offers all services. Internet routers decide on the best route (to the closest/best reachable data center) and direct your connection that way.