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this doesn't scale – what happens when you want to add another piece of information? how do you change the schema for all the names?


Cnames, reverse records, TXT records, the sky is the limit


No what happens when you want to add information to the name. Do you go through and update all your existing records? Having DNS names just be opaque ids that point to an entry in a db (which can be a TXT record) is usually a lot better.

It's the only thing you can guarantee will never change. The name points to exactly that server.


DNS offers TXT records...




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