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[Raphaël Badin <raphael.badin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Why do we have custom hostnames? They're pretty, but we're ought to be
> thinking big, and nobody is going to try and give meaningful names for
> 1000+ nodes.
>
> If folk want pretty names for specific nodes, let that happen either
> outside of MAAS, or let us to have a separate feature in MAAS for
> assigning a pretty alias to a node.

I agree, but we already have support for custom hostnames for historical 
reasons so let's keep it.  Apart from that I agree with you and that's 
why I suggest we make the generated hostname the default hostname handed 
out to clients.