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by jeeeeefff 3604 days ago
Same reason we have DNS instead of remembering IP addresses.
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IanCal 3604 days ago
DNS allows us to keep swapping the IP address associated with a service though, this (afaik) doesn't.
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pareshverma91 3604 days ago
Ability to swap underlying ip address is orthogonal to using alphanumerics in DNS. Numeric sequences could also be used as CNAME for the ip address. But we don't because of human brain.
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