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		sambeau on March 23, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How glow.mozilla.org gets its data Why didn't they just get the location data from the geo-load balancers?

sabat on March 23, 2011 [–]

I don't know the intimate details of Mozilla's server configuration, but the way I understand it, these geographically disperse load balancers don't know specifics about the requester locations -- just IPs.

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