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by deathanatos 3318 days ago
Use DNS. Seriously. We use IPv4 where I work, and we don't use DNS, and it's still a nightmare. There's no good way to refer to a machine, short of an IPv4 address, and that's still painful to speak and hard to memorize.

Life is much easier when you can speak of a machine as "2.dev.awesome-service" (.your-company.com)

Besides, the machines should be ephemeral, and the new ones will likely get new IPs. (Unless you're doing something like EIPs, but just stop that and use DNS. ;-) )