It's not like appserver1234.internal is significantly less opaque and meaningless. Either way you probably want a control panel somewhere that can give you extra information about a node.
contains a lot of information outside of an external lookup.
It's the only thing you can guarantee will never change. The name points to exactly that server.
I’m all for DNS instead of IP’s, but we need to stop encoding too much information into names…
Makes me wonder what GP does with the plate when he finishes his dinner.
Cattle = paper plate
I'll let the reader make the connections