Central hostname management

[Tom H]

On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 4:50 AM, Sonic <sonic at comkal.net> wrote:
>>
>> I, er, wouldn't do that if I were you. If your DHCP and DNS are
>> actually working properly, all machines will be assigned addresses and
>> names and NM will manage it fine.
>
> Niki said "My company primarily installs computer rooms in schools, town
> halls, public libraries and the likes."
>
> I would strip as much as possible out and make it static myself
> for security, management and ease of tracking.

IIRC from Niki K's previous posts here and on CentOS users, he uses
dhcp to assign hostnames and static ip addresses to his desktops.

Anyway, if you have many clients, the use of static ip addresses
doesn't scale. At my $day_job, the desktop team would go nuts if it
had to assign static addresses to 12k clients! And there wouldn't be
any security advantage.