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Internet Infrastructure These Days (lemmy.world)
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[–] 54 points 11 months ago* (6 children)

DNS isn't a service (in the same way as AWS and CloudFlare). It's a fundamental component of the world wide web.

I mean, unless you'd rather type IP addresses in to your URLs, anyways.

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  • [–] 13 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    I mean, I do put in http://149.13.0.80/radio1hi.aac to listen to Radio 1. I also use it to test my network when DNS potentially screwed up.
    I used to remember the domain name, then I did the IP for fun, now I only remember the IP. Perhaps I could do reverse lookup, but it's been working for quite a while now.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Aren’t IPs prone to change though?
    If it does what’s stopping someone from somehow getting that IP and hosting a fraud site?

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    The same thing that stops people from getting access to your domain registration and changing the IP. You have a contract with your provider (ISP or DNS) which says that you own that IP/Hostname.

    Your home IP address changes, but most business or commercial accounts are given a static IP address (or blocks of IP addresses) which never changes.

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