Re: Is there an easy way to monitor for Internet failures? -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Is there an easy way to monitor for Internet failures?
From: "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 10:28:29 -0800
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On 11/23/15 8:13 AM, Bradley Stone wrote:

No application should ever use IPs (well, I'm sure there are cases, but
99.99999% shouldn't). That's one of my pet peaves and I deal with it every
day with customers using our software. :)

Raw, hard-coded IP addresses are useful as a backup to the URL when an application needs to be able to "phone home" from a customer box that doesn't necessarily have DNS access or a host table entry.

And likewise, host table entries are ideal for directly accessing internal servers that aren't directly reachable from outside, at least in organizations that aren't big enough to warrant an internal DNS.

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JHHL

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