Domain names for ISP infrastructure links

> > I'm puzzled. Connections go from router to router. How does it help to say
> > routerb-x-y-z-routerc.blah.net when routerc will show up as the next hop in
> > the traceroute?
>
> I think it will help when routerc fails to show up as the next hop :slight_smile:

No.

Actually yes. At first I had the same thought that you did, but
knowing which router the packet was supposed to have come from makes
it easy to tell from the output of a traceroute weather the routing
changed in the middle. Having to use IP addresses to figure this out
is much more work. On the other hand, I do question the idea of
trying to cram all this info into the the interface names in the DNS.