Traffic Manager works through DNS and works across the globe and it’s unique because it uses DNS, looks at that routing method and confirms if our resources are healthy. Then, it responds back to our users with a DNS response. Users will get a DNS reponse and use it to talk directly to a backend resource.
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We see the DNS for our Web App that’s across the globe. With the performance criteria, when we use the DNS name in the browser, it will point to the closest resource to me.
When we do a nslookup in command line with the DNS name, we’ll get the name of the Azure Load Balancer (load balancer public IP) we’re talking to. Som, my public IP address has a DNS name associated with it.
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