I remember when I was a junior in a major NOC, we had this management host with a local hosts file for all critical components.

Probably worth reviewing some old school techniques. 😉

If you can automate your gazillion routers business, you probably can also automate a couple of hosts file.

Jean

From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+jean=ddostest.me@nanog.org> On Behalf Of Baldur Norddahl
Sent: November 29, 2021 4:22 AM
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Subject: Re: IPv6 and CDN's

man. 29. nov. 2021 02.12 skrev Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>:

> The only way to truly reduce Opex at scale is automation.

Automation by what? DNS?

                                                Masataka Ohta

Most of our customers are provisioned by Radius. The remaining are configured by scripting using Netconf. 

We use DNS to document the network. If our DNS was down and I need to connect to a router in some city, do you really expect me to remember the IP address? I would have to look it up and our chosen database for that happens to be DNS. It has some obvious advantages. 

Regards 

Baldur