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0 pointsitopaloglu832mo ago0 comments

When people are managing 20 devices on a network, they access everything by IP address directly and struggle with constant DNS issues.

Introducing a more complex system without easing any of the cognitive load and making fun of it is just cruel at this moment.

Users need a simpler way to connect to their devices, and what tailscale did with magic dns shows that users don’t even care about IPv4 they just want to connect to their devices with something simple they can remember.

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kstrauser2mo ago

I have 68 devices on the line at this moment. I just checked. I remember exactly one of their IPs and that’s just one that stuck in my head. I never connect to it by address.

I agree with the sibling comment: crummy CPE is crummy CPE. This is a solvable problem, but people end up with junky routers and it causes them anguish.

gertrunde2mo ago

Weirdly this might be a CPE problem, e.g. crappy ISP routers.

Put in something more interesting, e.g. OpenWRT, or there are proprietary options too, that provides simple & reliable local LAN DNS, then the problem just goes away.

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