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Zoom outage caused by accidental 'shutting down' of the zoom.us domain

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634 points RVRX | 1 comments | 17 Apr 25 00:55 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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wodenokoto ◴[17 Apr 25 04:23 UTC] No.43713112[source]▶
Would it be safer to hard-code a static IP than a domain?
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1. Koffiepoeder ◴[17 Apr 25 05:02 UTC] No.43713266[source]▶
Ip's can (easily) be hijacked by nefarious BGP requests and offer no easy SSL. You could maybe add cert pinning to fix that, but it's quite inflexible.

Another added bonus of domains is the potential for subdomains to be used. This could be usful for many purposes: as load balancing/pooling mechanism (fictive example us4.zoom.us) and for compartmentalisation (api.zoom.us).