Comment by iberator
6 hours ago
why you need DNS for at server? just use hosts file. why your server would need to resolve domains on the internet? client yeah, server no.
6 hours ago
why you need DNS for at server? just use hosts file. why your server would need to resolve domains on the internet? client yeah, server no.
> why you need DNS for at server? just use hosts file.
IP's can change without warning.
interesting.
But it's not an issue at all, and it provides a convenience that can be depended on by a lot of your dependencies.
Code may use domains instead of ip addresses (which provides resiliency), package managers like apt depend on domains. And so on.
clusters and other load-balanced workloads. who wants to maintain hosts files across a fleet of containers or multiregion load-balanced situations?