[dheera]

When is DNS always available?

I often update an A record and nobody except the heavens knows when the DNS server caches will update, when my clients will invalidate, often it's more reliable to just punch in the IPv4 off the top of my head when DNS is so unreliable about providing lighting-fast updates.

And then there are the DNS-poisoning Wi-Fi hotspots, I connect to some hotspot, go to http://myfoo.com/, get some stupid hotel login page, I just go "fuck it" and punch in the IPv4 instead and I'm in business.

[IcePic]

You'd be amazed if you were working with networking in the early 90s before TCP/IP "won" over NetBEUI/AppleTalk/IPX, and the same was said then, those huge weird numbers were unwieldy and nothing an admin should have to remember.

Answer still the same, use DNS and stop caring for the large numbers.