[SGVLUG] How to manage DNS for DHCP-assigned clients?

[Adam Compton]

Hello all,

I work at a small private school with ~200 client computers scattered 
around the campus. They all receive dynamic IP addresses from the DHCP 
server we have running.

The question I have is this: how would you all keep track of where a 
given computer was on the network, so that it could be administered 
remotely and programmatically? For instance, pushing out a new version 
of a certain configuration file to each computer as soon as it comes on 
the network, wherever it happens to be in IP-space. I've been given 
advice to implement dynamic DNS with BIND and DHCP, but I do not control 
the DHCP server, so I don't believe that is an option. What I'm really 
looking for is descriptions of how other people have solved similar 
problems, so I have an idea of what's possible for me to do in this realm.

Thanks everybody in advance for your help!

- Adam Compton