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

IP addresses can change regularly. That’s the whole point of a DNS server. When this happens it updates the new IP address.

There is a way to use your own recursive DNS server instead of relying on public ones. See pihole recursive DNS using unbound, for instance.