Hello,

One of the design issues I have been faced with several times is whether to deploy devices using DNS and reporting to a hostname, or to not use DNS and report to a numeric IP.

If you use DNS you incur additional airtime and add another point of failure into the system. However, you gain the ability to change the IP of a server without needing to touch every device and update it. You also gain some ability to use round-robin DNS and the like to do some load balancing on the server end.

I am curious to know how others have approached this issue. Horror stories due to the wrong decision would be very interesting to hear as well.