t just the VMs in the mesh that suffer from the DNS issue. For
the sidecar to accurately distinguish traffic between two different
TCP services that are outside the mesh, the services must be on
different ports or they need to have a globally unique VIP, much like
the <code>clusterIP</code> assigned to Kubernetes services. But what if there is
no VIP? Cloud hosted services like hosted databases, typically do not
have a VIP. Instead, the provider&rsquo;s DNS server returns one of the
instance IPs that can th