ILO reverse DNS lookup

[Simon Clingan]

G'Day.
I have manually configured the IP settings for numerous ILO's Im using.
Im running Windows 2000 DDNS, and have configured the ILO's to register with the Windows DDNS. The A records correctly register in the DDNS, but they do not register the PTR record in the reverse lookup domain. The result of this is that in HPSIM the ILO's are shown by IP address, not name.
Are the ILO's able to register the PTR record?
I can manually set the PTR record in the DDNS, or I could set the ILO name in HPSIM to prevent an auto discovery bashing it, but this seems tedious.
Can anyone offer some advice?
Cheers
Simon

[Derek_31]

I have secure DDNS enabled with my WS2003E servers and iLO NEVER registers their A or PTR records since Windows doesn't know ILOs are trusted so the secure update fails.

You might check to see if all of your DNS zones have secure updates enabled.

[Ken Horn · Accepted solution]

Simon, the iLOs do not register a PTR record on DDNS, at least not that I've found yet. We recently isolated our iLOs to their own vlan, which actually helped solve the very same problem for us. Having put the iLOs on their on vlan, we set the boards to use DHCP and created a scope. We then set the options on the scope to register A and PTR records for clients that do no request them.
Hope this helps
~Ken