How to join an BITMAIN Antminer to a Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Active Directory

Question

Let's start with "WHY?":#nerdsLoveToStartWithWhy

I'm developing a customized software to manage a crypto-mining farm where we need to communicate with miners (BITMAIN Antminer) by their hostname instead of IP (just for ease of use).

I know! But I don't want to scan IP ranges, then either SSH to them or use API to pull out the information such as the hostname

My Solution:(please share if you have a better solution)

I've configured a Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Active Directory & DNS with a domain name as ts.facility.com and I'm trying to join my Antminers to this domain.

Scenario: The SRV1 is my AC DC and visible to the miners. The miner with a hostname as antMinerThree which is running a linux Angstrom V2013.12 are getting reply from the ACDC with its FQDN. the ntpdate package is installed as perquisite:

command: #opkg install ntpdate

Problem:

The problem for now is that when to install required packages:

samba krb5-config krb5-user winbind libpam-winbind libnss-winbind

I got the following error: bmminer.list

Failed to open //var/lib/opkg/info/bmminer.list: No such file or directory.

and when I created manually an empty file bmminer.list in the path /var/lib/opkg/info/ I still get this error message, unless it no longer complains about missing bmminer.list:

Question

Does any body know, how to install required packages to joint this miner running Linux Angstrom V2013.12 to a Microsoft Windows Active Directory 2008 in order that I could ping my miners by hostname instead of by their IP addresses?