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Noob question, but why does network infrastructure need dns? Why the full ipv6 address of the various components do not suffice to do business?
by whatever1 5y ago
Noob question, but why does network infrastructure need dns? Why the full ipv6 address of the various components do not suffice to do business?
- nijave 5y agoIt's basically used for service discovery. At a certain point, you have too many different devices which are potentially changing to identify them by IP. You want some abstraction layer to separate physical devices from services and DNS lets you so things like advertise different IPs at different times in different network zones
- AUX4R6829DR8 5y agoThat "internal network" hosts an awful lot of stuff- it's not just network hardware, but services that mostly use DNS to find each other. Besides that, it's just plain useful for network devices to have names. (Source: Work at AWS.)