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## Anycast network groups
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To increase resiliency, advanced nameserver IPs are advertised by only one of two <GlossaryTooltip term="anycast">anycast</GlossaryTooltip> network groups.
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To increase resiliency, the advertisement of advanced nameserver IPs considers three <GlossaryTooltip term="anycast">anycast</GlossaryTooltip> network groups.
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The two groups consist of data centers that are geographically equally distributed.
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Two groups consist of data centers that are geographically equally distributed, and a third group consists of all data centers in the Cloudflare network.
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<Details header="United Kingdom example">
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| IPs | Group | Data centers |
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| --------------- | ----- | -------------------- |
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| `108.162.198.1` | A | London and Edinburgh |
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| `172.64.40.1` | B | Manchester |
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| `162.159.60.1` | A | London and Edinburgh |
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| `162.159.60.1` | C | Manchester, London, and Edinburgh |
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</Details>
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In DNS resolution, a resolver eventually acquires a list of all IPs where authoritative nameservers for a domain can be reached, and will then usually prefer the IP with the best resolution performance.
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When, instead of advertising all IPs in all data centers, this group logic is applied, resiliency is improved because, if one of the data centers experiences a localized issue, the resolver can fall back to an IP advertised by the next closest data center.
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When, instead of advertising all IPs in all data centers, this group logic is applied, resiliency is improved because, if one of the data centers experiences a localized issue, the resolver can fall back to an IP advertised by the next closest data center. The third group provides an additional option, to improve resiliency even further.
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Refer to [our blog post](https://blog.cloudflare.com/foundation-dns-launch) for an in-depth explanation.
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Refer to [our blog post](https://blog.cloudflare.com/foundation-dns-launch) for an in-depth explanation of the distributed groups logic.
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## Dedicated release process
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