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From: Marco Fretz mailinglist@blah.li

I've never set up IPv4 anycast services but as far as I know anycast is only recommended for connection less / session less services (DNS, etc...). I never saw http content delivered over anycast, because it's TCP and you need consistent data. pls correct me if I'm wrong...

Anycast is just using the same public IP address for serving the content from multiple locations. From your PC the packets will anyway definitely be delivered to only one of such locations, the nearest one (considering the routing is set up correctly), and packets from those locations will anyway reach your PC. So, there's generally no reason not to use TCP services with such a set-up.