Alrond's technoblog

The DNS servers have IP addresses 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 (networks were bought from Level3).
Thanks to anycast technology the servers are available from different data centers simultaneously.
Google has got a lot of data centers around the world, but the DNS servers are located in some of these.

There is the list of data centers with DNS servers:

1. USA, Atlanta
2. USA, Reston,VA
3. USA, Seattle
4. USA, California
5. Brazil, Sao Paulo
6. Taiwan, Taipei City
7. Germany, Frankfurt/Main
8. Netherlands, Groningen
9. Ireland, Dublin
10. United Kingdom, London
11. (anywhere else?)

Here you can check ping distance to 8.8.8.8 from the servers all over the world

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