What are the DNS servers being used for? The request flow says that the request ...

		bharatkhatri14 on Nov 1, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Service discovery at Stripe What are the DNS servers being used for? The request flow says that the request hits your load balancer (HAProxy) which is updated every 60s using Consul templates. They also say that DNS records are updated every 60s using Consul templates. But when are the DNS servers used for service discovery if external requests always hit the load balancer (HAProxy)?

I got the impression the DNS bit was legacy and being phased out. Could be wrong though.