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The DNS only provides one upside: memorable names. But there aren't enough downsides to ever be more important than this one feature, or you would just be tell
by creeble 7y ago
The DNS only provides one upside: memorable names.
But there aren't enough downsides to ever be more important than this one feature, or you would just be telling people IP addresses already.
- danShumway 7y agoI want to be able to carry a domain between IP addresses. But to rephrase your argument in a way that does feel more convincing to me, maybe there aren't enough downsides to ever be more important than this one feature, or I would be registering random strings for my domains already, just to get rid of the effort of finding new names for things I'm building.
- lone_haxx0r 7y ago>you would just be telling people IP addresses already. That's doable in ipv4, probably with some rebasing: e.g. converting decimal to hex, 192.168.0.1 becomes c0.a8.00.01 IPv6 addresses, on the other hand, are unmanageable with bare human memory, but I quite like the idea of every person managing their own hosts file, listed with a mnemonic name for their favorite addresses.