Cloudflare Sends EU Traffic via US POPs — How Do I Keep Requests in Europe?

[devout stratus]

Hi all,
I’m new to Cloudflare and could really use some help. My site targets European users and the origin server sits in Finland (Hetzner). As soon as I enabled Cloudflare, traceroutes from France, Germany, Armenia, etc. started resolving to two U.S. IPs (172.67.213.26 / 104.21.53.129, both apparently in California). Anything that isn’t cached now travels across the Atlantic before coming back to Europe, which feels pointless.

Is there a way to keep European traffic on European edge servers—maybe a setting I’ve overlooked? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

[merry carbon]

?anycast

[mighty thistle]

Take a look here to see why the Cloudflare datacenter you are routed towards isn't always the closest geographically: https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/learning/cdn/glossary/anycast-network/

[merry carbon]

😀

[devout stratus]

I don't quite understand. This thing is supposed to work by default in Cloudflare, right? But all my requests are going to two IPs in California.

[devout stratus]

And yet, when I test from the https://speed.cloudflare.com page, everything is routed correctly (to Germany).

[jolly tartan]

Cloudflare's IP addresses are anycast, the german data center has the same ip as the californian.

Your ISP picks where to send traffic. Sadly, some (mostly Telekom) send most Cloudflare traffic to US locations.

[devout stratus]

Oh, ok! Thank you. Seems strange, cause I see 2 different ip adresses, but both in California..

[real siren]

It sounds like you're looking at the GeoIP location