I'm attempting to use CDN's and Traffic manager at the same time. Here's my current setup:
DNS point to Azure Edge:
CNAME: www.inboxlock.com -> inboxlock
Inside Azure Edge I have the origin pointing to Traffic Manager (inboxlock.trafficmanager.net). The reason I'm pointing to the CDN and not Traffic Manager is because there's no option for setting a CDN inside of Traffic Manager. So basically, if I use Traffic Manager I can't use a CDN.
So, theoretically what should happen is a DNS request checks the CDN to see if there's a cache of the content and if not it will load the resources from the closest server (Traffic Manager). I currently have servers in the West US, West Europe, and SouthEast Asia. However, I'm located in Washington State and when I check the location of the referring server it's triggering West Europe or some other place nowhere near to me. Also, if I test this setup using an IP from Singapore (through a VPN) for example technically it should trigger the server in SouthEast Asia (which happens to be in Singapore). But nope, it's triggering the server in California.
I was thinking that maybe the reason it's hitting the wrong servers is because it's being pulled from the location of the cache and not the IP of my personal DNS zone but if the CDN cache was really loading from my nearest location like it should for low latency of the CDN then it would still pull from the closest server through traffic manager.
Please help. Thanks, Chris Walters