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On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 3:09 PM, Fox, Kevin M <Kevin.Fox at pnnl.gov> wrote:
> DNS is preferable, since humans don't remember ip's very well. IPv6 is much harder to remember then v4 too.
>
> DNS has its own issues, mostly, its usually not very quick to get a DNS entry updated.  At our site (and I'm sure, others), I'm afraid to say in some cases it takes as long as 24 hours to get updates to happen. Even if that was fixed, caching can bite you too.

We also have work going on now to automate the addition and update of
DNS entries as VMs come and go [1].  Please have a look and provide
feedback.

[1] https://review.openstack.org/#/q/topic:bp/external-dns-resolution,n,z

Carl