On 5/19/11 3:46 , Owen DeLong wrote:
Often, the time delay in DNS changes can be a blocking factor in addressing load issues by moving things around quickly. IP addresses can be moved with much greater agility than the DNS abstraction...
And having persistent IP address-to-service mappings aside from DNS can also be useful for other things like firewall/IDS rules that often don't use DNS at all.
-e
