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Sid D
How is IP hash LB useful for geographic affinity?

Sid D

Apr 21, 2025

An IP can map to any server from the pool. Its not possible that an IP from a specific region maps to a specific server that is geographically close to it. Then why is it mentioned that IP hash LB is useful in geographically distributed clients?

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garvit taneja
garvit taneja5 months ago

I have the same question

Abdelhak DJEDAINI
Abdelhak DJEDAINI3 months ago

It's useful when we want to route client requests from specific region to specific server, let's say we have 3 servers (0, 1 , 2)

Server 0 is in Europe

Server 1 is in Asia

Server 3 is in Africa

Every request come from Asia should be mapped to the server 1

At thi...