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by toddh 1794 days ago
You can still hardcode IP addresses. Not sure most people realize DNS isn't actually needed, you know, except for convenience and all that.
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tyingq 1794 days ago
The "Host:" header in http[s] pretty much killed that. Half the internet would be a Cloudflare error page if we moved back to ip addresses :)
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BenjiWiebe 1794 days ago
Add the name/IP to your local hosts file. It all works great then. Until the server changes IPs, anyways.

I did this with a website I liked which had let the domain expire. It worked for quite some time, until the VPS/whatever expired too. Good thing the Internet Archive is a thing.

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topranks 1793 days ago
Meh. Without DNS, or something similar, there really is no internet.

Obviously you are technically correct.

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toddh 1793 days ago
The internet gets along quite fine without DNS. Packets route from network to network. DNS is an application-layer protocol. People often confuse the web with the internet. We use phone numbers for phone calls. It's conceivable with IPv6 you could nail up your IP address and use a QR code to make the addresses accessible. In a hundred years will DNS still be necessary? I don't think so.
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