Why is DNS a thing? And why is it integrated the way it is with the web infrastructure.

Question

I understand how it makes everything easy to use and probably has some branding implications but it’s a major source of exploits. We have used phone numbers before and while a b inconvenient wouldn’t using IP addresses directly be much more secure. Or the very least using some decentralized framework rather than DNS servers

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Answer 1

Just because DNS exists doesn’t mean you can’t use IP addresses directly. If you believe it’s more secure, go ahead and use IP addresses directly. Good luck figuring out which IP addresses belong to which web sites without DNS, though.