GeoDNS?
I feel like that the default DNS does not allow for that much flexibility, more of a resolve-your-ip and then you're done. But I would really like something like GeoDNS, and while I understand that geo-based routing is available on Cloudflare's CDN, not all services are https and for something like a Minecraft server, the lack of GeoDNS means either discrete domains for different regions or having to use anycast. I find it kind of frustrating that I have to use GCore for the sole purpose of making sure that no-one is having 500+ ping because they connected to South America when they're in asia... But maybe this is hard to implement as every requests means an IP location lookup?
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You can use Cloudflare's Load Balancer in DNS-Only mode with Geo steering: https://developers.cloudflare.com/load-balancing/understand-basics/proxy-modes/#dns-only-load-balancing
Proxy status · Cloudflare Load Balancing docs
You can load balance your traffic at different levels of the networking stack, including:
oh, I did not realise this was possible. Thank, I'll have a look