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		phamilton on June 29, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Noticing when an app is only hosted in us-east-1 Just a nit, but aren't DNS lookups going to be independent of distance to us-east-1?

onion2k on June 30, 2023 [–]

That depends on where the name server is. If a website is only hosted on us-east-1 it's common to see the canonical name server being in the US as well.

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