alt Hacker NewsDown as well. I noticed my error code ends with "DTW" which is my local Detroit airport. I noticed someone else's comment ended with "ORD" which is a Chicago airport. Anyone else's ending in an airport acronym?
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ascorbic • yesterday at 10:02 PM
cf-ray is the Cloudflare ray id, which ends with the airport code for the colo that served the response. They're airport codes, but that's just to show the nearest city.
okankaradmn • yesterday at 3:04 PM
Mine is ending with IST, which is the new Istanbul airport, weird indeed.
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graysonthemason • yesterday at 3:05 PM
Wow mine ends in EWR...that's the newark airport which is not the closest, but a close airport to me. Hmm
parad0xicon • yesterday at 3:12 PM
Yep, mine says YUL -- Montreal's airport.
blaseygg • yesterday at 3:10 PM
The acronym is probably Cloudflare's edge
ecayard • yesterday at 3:06 PM
Yeah mine is showing ATL
This is common when naming data centers. I know many have not worked in hardware infra these days if you were born into the cloud world, but in the old days it was not uncommon to name a data center after the nearest airport code, much like we now use cloud regions.