Catch ALL Setup
James Pratt
jpratt at norwich.edu
Wed Feb 18 12:57:25 UTC 2009
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounces at lists.isc.org
[mailto:bind-users-bounces at lists.isc.org] On
> Behalf Of Sven Eschenberg
> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 11:28 PM
> To: bind-users at lists.isc.org
> Subject: Catch ALL Setup
>
> Dear list,
>
> I tried googling about a Catch-All setup for a DNS, with little
success.
> I tried messing around with some zone/hint files in an isolated setup,
> but without any success.
>
> What I am trying to achieve is the following:
>
> No matter which host/name is looked up, the DNS should spit out the
same
> IP address. The intention is to bring the users to a specific
> webserver/webpage, not matter what web page the intend to surf to, for
> the easiness of setting up their connection. The basic idea is,
> unauthenticated clients will be put in an isolated network, users then
> pop up their web browser, will land on a specific webpage with
> instructions on which steps they need to take, to get proper access.
>
> I tried to create a "*" zone, which seems to be ignored by bind, or
> rather bind doesn't like the contents of the zone file.
>
> I'd appreciate any pointer to some information, how I can tweak bind
to
> do such a thing.
>
> With best regards
>
> -Sven
Sven -
Use the same/normal "domain.com" zone file, but make an A record like
this:
*.wildcard.com. IN A 192.149.109.1
(replace above with your stuff, then xxx.wildcard.com should work for
any request).
Cheers,
jamie
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