ESXi 5 hosts not registering with DNS

Scratching my head on this one. Here's my lab:
Physical ESXi 5 U1 host. There are the following VM's on this host:
1. 2008 R2 domain controller, 10.0.0.2
2. vCenter server, 10.0.0.3
3. vMA, 10.0.0.50
4. 3 x ESXi 5 U1 hosts, 10.0.0.4 - 10.0.0.6, hostnames : esxi3.domain.local through to esxi5.domain.local. (The names are out of sync with the IP's, I know)
Okay now I added the 3 nested ESXi hosts to the domain without any issues. Installed vMA, joined it to the domain with no issues. When I try to add the 3 nested ESXi hosts as target servers to the vMA, I get the following error:
There's something screwed with DNS, somewhere. I have disabled the firewall on the nested hosts, to no avail. I have taken them off the domain, rejoined them but they still dont register in DNS. As a result, I cannot add them as targets to my vMA. One thing that I noted is I was able to add my vCenter server as a target to the vMA with no issues. There are no DNS records for the nested hosts on my DC. When I putty to my nested hosts, they cannot ping the FQDN's of any server, other than the DC and the vCenter server. The hosts can ping their own FQDN's and the IP addresses of the other hosts with no issues.
Thanks in advance.
Physical ESXi 5 U1 host. There are the following VM's on this host:
1. 2008 R2 domain controller, 10.0.0.2
2. vCenter server, 10.0.0.3
3. vMA, 10.0.0.50
4. 3 x ESXi 5 U1 hosts, 10.0.0.4 - 10.0.0.6, hostnames : esxi3.domain.local through to esxi5.domain.local. (The names are out of sync with the IP's, I know)
Okay now I added the 3 nested ESXi hosts to the domain without any issues. Installed vMA, joined it to the domain with no issues. When I try to add the 3 nested ESXi hosts as target servers to the vMA, I get the following error:
There's something screwed with DNS, somewhere. I have disabled the firewall on the nested hosts, to no avail. I have taken them off the domain, rejoined them but they still dont register in DNS. As a result, I cannot add them as targets to my vMA. One thing that I noted is I was able to add my vCenter server as a target to the vMA with no issues. There are no DNS records for the nested hosts on my DC. When I putty to my nested hosts, they cannot ping the FQDN's of any server, other than the DC and the vCenter server. The hosts can ping their own FQDN's and the IP addresses of the other hosts with no issues.
Thanks in advance.
Comments
MCSA 2003, LFCS, LFCE (expired), VCP6-DCV
What he said. I've always created DNS A record for my ESXi hosts.
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Thanks again.
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