On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Peter Bako <pe...@bakonet.org> wrote: > I'm looking for a script that I can run on my OpenBSD boxes that would allow > them to register their DHCP assigned IP addresses with my Windows 2003 DNS > server. My windows boxes do this automatically and its convenient to be > able to just ping them by name regardless of what IP they have been given, > but for my BSD boxes I don't have this. It would be nice to find a script > that could be called as part of the boot process with which they could also > register their name and IP addresses to the Server 2003 DNS server.
I don't know if you use a Windows DHCP server as well, but it might be best to just let the DHCP server handle the DNS update on behalf of the client if you do. It is a simple configuration change on your DHCP server.