dns question??

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sun, 2016-01-31 at 13:49 -0500, bruce wrote:
> The situation will potentially scale/get to:
> -50-100 instances on the rackspace/digitialocean cloud
> -the process needs the ability to externally interface with a few of
> the
>   boxes/instances via name as opposed to ipaddress (thus the DNS)
> -the internal processes need the ability to be accessible from the
> other
>  instances via name (again, the reason for dns) I'd prefer not to
>  do ssh test at 1.2.3.4 to instances within the internal boxes/instances
>  --names are much easier..
>  --the internal machines for the most part are connected to other
> internal
>    instances/boxes..  -- ie, will not be accessed externally
> 
> -while one could manage /etc/host files.. not looking to do that for
> 50/100 instances.. which is why the dns questions are being posed.

I think Pete's reply gives a more complete answer. I was thinking more
of the typical home network rather than a large-scale cloud deployment.

poc