Exactly! This also means the clients become more self healing. Throw a couple Anycast IP's out there, add some SRV records, and entire datacenter routing issu

Exactly! This also means the clients become more self healing. Throw a couple Anycast IP's out there, add some SRV records, and entire datacenter routing issues could be side-stepped by the client. That is something load balancers can't even directly handle. Today we hack around that using GSLB and short lived DNS, which makes DNS DDoS more effective.