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

>We have used phone numbers before

Yes and we used phone books to find the number of the people/the business we want to call.

So.. DNS is basically the phonebook for IP adresses

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So you always need at least one source of the number you want to dial in the beginning.

The same would be true if we would use IP addresses directly.

So you would still need DNS (or an “IP-Adress book”) to find the IP you want to call and need to trust this book.