how to create a default ip ?

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Thu Oct 20 00:43:52 UTC 2005


Dipl-Inform. Frank Gadegast wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I like to have bind returning a default IP, when a record isnt found.
>This has to work for any domain not only for our zones.
>
>This way I like to direct our intranet users to a internal help-system,
>when they mistype an URL in their browser.
>
>Any way to set this behaviour directly via binds config files ?
>I also looked in the source, but Im a bit confused there, any hint where to start ?
>
There's no way to do this via DNS without "cloaking" the Internet DNS 
from your clients. This is because wildcards are zone-specific, and you 
can't hope to maintain a "fake" version of very zone in the Internet DNS 
with your special wildcard in it.

Look into doing this via a web proxy.

- Kevin





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