First of all i apologize since this question has been asked so many times but i cant seem to fit any of the answers to my current issues.
First of all this all is done in a virtual environment ie. closed loop.
I have a windows 2008 r2 server that i have installed both DNS and DHCP servers on.
The server has address 10.10.10.10 it is a static address. GW is set to 10.10.10.1 and DNS is set to itself 10.10.10.10, subnet is 255.255.255.0.
It is not a domain controller as domains are not used.
the DHCP server installed on the server is serving out a scope from 10.10.10.20-10.10.10.240 presenting the DNS and GW + subnet values mentioned above.
DHCP is flawless! serves out IP's to no end to all sorts of clients like old windows machines and linux machines. No problem!
Installed DNS server also:
Called the domain blah.local created a forward and reverse zones with the wizard. made sure the DHCP server is set to update the records.
Manually made a (A) Record for the server itself with name blah-dhcpdns.local pointing to 10.10.10.10 and it created the PTR record by itself.
Now...
None of my DHCP'd clients are getting their hostnames recorded. I can see the leases with their names in my DHCP Address Leases but nothing is passed on to the DNS servers!
I got a gaggle of Linux geeks hanging over me telling me to use their flavor of the day but I keep telling them Windows rocks. I have not yet lost hope but have very little hair left after pulling it all out while re-installing this for the fifth time.
Please help.