Why all our sites' IP pointing to Canada and any other countries?

[SethM]

We know our server is located in California, US

I’ve seen a few well-known sites that are using Cloudflare like discord.com and it resolves to the US.

any advice on this?

[sdayman]

Sound like this (please read):

Why does my site return a US IP address?

If your site is proxied through Cloudflare, then a lookup on your domain will return one of their IP addresses. The Cloudflare IP will likely show as being in the US, however, this does not mean your traffic will be routed to the US. Cloudflare utilises an anycast network so your traffic will likely go to a server nearer to you (depending on your ISP’s peering). You can determine which Cloudflare data center your requests are going to by adding /cdn-cgi/trace to the domain name. E.g. go to exa…

[SethM]

hey, thanks for the info! So there is no way to set it no US instead of Canada?

[KianNH]

No - Cloudflare operates an anycast network so those IPs exist globally. The address you receive from GeoIP is usually just based on the address they were registered at, and has no bearing on the actual location that an IP is being served at.

tl;dr anycast means GeoIP is meaningless