Redirecting NXDOMAINS
Merton Campbell Crockett
m.c.crockett at adelphia.net
Fri Jun 9 14:07:56 UTC 2006
On 08 Jun 2006, at 20:55 , Barry Margolin wrote:
> In article <e6aaol$282h$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
> Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews at isc.org> wrote:
>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have checked the ARM and the list archives, but I haven't been
>>> able to
>>> find out whether this is possible in bind.
>>>
>>> We would like to return a particular IP address instead of a
>>> negative
>>> response to DNS queries for non-existent sites.
>>>
>>> I know there may be some resistance to doing this from purists,
>>> but for
>>> a low-cost provider, any additional income we can generate by
>>> redirecting such requests to a search pages with ads that generate
>>> money, allows us to keep our costs low.
>>>
>>> I know several companies are charging for this service, but it seems
>>> such an easy modification can be done locally without having to
>>> pay the
>>> middleman.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>
>> There is no such support in BIND. It is also a bad idea as
>> the Internet is not just HTTP. Doing this would break every
>> other protocol.
>
> How would it break them? If the name doesn't exist, the other
> protocols
> wouldn't have been able to connect anyway. So what's the big deal if
> they try to connect to his server and get a connection refused?
For one's own domain, a wildcard record can be used; however, that
does not appear to be what is being asked. The question is how to
return a response for a specific system instead of a NXDOMAIN response.
This sounds like the idiocy that Network Solutions did several years
ago in an attempt to drum-up business for their Registry.
Merton Campbell Crockett
m.c.crockett at adelphia.net
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