Automatic Register Router / Switches in DNS

[tpfrankli]

Hello,

Is there a way either natively or via TCL to make the Router / Switching platforms register their own A records against an insecure DNS zone? Even better would be the option to provide credentials so they could do secure updates. The goal is to accomplish the following:

• Configure router or switch with domain name net.example.com.
• Have it create router.net.example.com as an A record.
• Should the router name change it should update it’s record.

This to remove the burden of having to manually enter and maintain all the A records of the network equipment. If you have any ideas or another way of doing it by all means please share.

Thank you.

[Tymofii Dmytrenko]

This is exactly what we're looking at the moment. HP iLOs can do that even with the static IP addresses, while Cisco can't? That sounds like a huge limitation to me. Why do I want to a) maintain all these A records manually and b) use DHCP to assign IP addresses to routers (as a workaround).

Has anyone found the way to auto-register to AD DNS using static IP assignment?

I understand this post is 6yo old, but... still can't find the answer.