BSD Cafe friends connecting to the Mastodon instance from the American continent – as a test of the new routed setup, I’ve installed a reverse proxy in the Western United States, both in IPv4 and IPv6.
It routes traffic via Wireguard to the original server, so there’s no particular local caching, at least for now.
The original DNS TTL was set to 12 hours (while it'll be 5 minutes for this new ipv4 and ipv6, as it's a test), so some of you might still connect to the Finnish IP for a little while longer.
The DNS will return the American IP when the connection is closer to it, and I’d be curious to know if you notice any performance differences or if everything remains the same as before.

Thanks for the feedback!

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