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Originally Posted by borked
so, fuck knows how they've managed to round-robin their IP cos I've *never* gotten <150ms on a transatlantic hop and yet 209.85.243.73 is in mountain view, CA.
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They could be doing something unorthodox like routing the same IP block to multiple destinations. BGP routing will generally prefer the fewest hops.
BTW, Mountain View CA is just the administrative address for that block - doesn't mean that traffic necessarily terminates there.