It certainly sounds like you’ve never operated a network at scale if you think knowing the IP address of something reduces Operational expense. The only way to truly reduce Opex at scale is automation.
Shane > On Nov 28, 2021, at 9:13 AM, Masataka Ohta <mo...@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> > wrote: > > Mark Tinka wrote: > >>> As a person who proposed anycast DNS servers, against which facebook >>> operated their DNS, I'm so sure you are right. >> Facebook's mistake on this is an easily fixable one. > > Certainly, but, merely because it is an easily avoided one. > >> We've all been there. > > People who really understand DNS, including but not limited to > anycast one, have never been there. > > Masataka Ohta