alt Hacker News> why on earth are we still using simple numbers to describe which process to connect to? Why not use names instead.
Not super popular, but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRV_record
> why on earth are we still using simple numbers to describe which process to connect to? Why not use names instead.
Not super popular, but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRV_record
Yep, my immediate reaction was "because browsers refuse to support SRV records" (although I think there was some new variant that kinda worked?)