google.com different IP in different countries. How?

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Published on 2010-04-12T01:47:34Z Indexed on 2010/04/12 1:53 UTC
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If you ping google.com from different countries you will get replies from local google servers. How does that work? Can a DNS record have multiple A addresses? Could someone point me to the technology they use to do that?

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