alt Hacker News…getting a homelab project idea, where I create LOC records for devices without a dynamic IP address so I can figure out where the f*k they are without having to keep a continuous mental map running at all times. Free up some mental bandwidth as it were.
Very, very cool function to have. I wonder how feasible it’d be to dynamically update it using GPS measurements for fleet tracking, given even Cloudflare had to patch in support.
Even without LOC, there's also TXT. In my work lab (size of a medium DC, tonnes of devices from a variety of vendors) we used formatted TXT records to store things like: rack elevations, host/port for serial access server, switched power outlet info, reservation status, loan / return info and more. With this and cnames for rack numbers/elevations, with simple scripts we could do more than either a free-but-clunky or a decent-but-expensive DC management system could, from CLI, and quicker.