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jeeeeefff
on Aug 10, 2016
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Show HN: Give 7B people an instant physical addres...
Same reason we have DNS instead of remembering IP addresses.
IanCal
on Aug 10, 2016
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DNS allows us to keep swapping the IP address associated with a service though, this (afaik) doesn't.
pareshverma91
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Ability to swap underlying ip address is orthogonal to using alphanumerics in DNS. Numeric sequences could also be used as CNAME for the ip address. But we don't because of human brain.
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