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		ceejayoz on Oct 16, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Poor Man's Scalability ELBs change IP if they have to scale up. You really shouldn't point an A record at one.

jibs on Oct 16, 2011 [–]

...which is why they recommend you never use the ip, instead AWS provides a hostname, which is invariant...

ceejayoz on Oct 16, 2011 | [–]

Which is why you can't use an A record, as I stated.

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