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November 27, 2022

Cloudflare servers don't own IPs anymore – so how do they connect to the Internet?

A great post on an interesting nteworking problem: how does distributed servers send packets to the internet while sharing a common set of IP addresses?

For ingress there is the technique of anycast which allows the client to connect to any one of the servers, but for egress it's a lot more trickier because the client needs to know about where the traffic comes from.