Issue Using Wildcards for Subdimain Redirecing

[muhanad at plciq.com]

Hi

I understood that, now, I have another issue. The main domain the is used in the zone ( zone "example.com" ) don't resolve to anything and I want it to be resolved from 8.8.8.8, while the sub-domains still resolve from my DNS as specified in the zone record file.

Muhanad Abdullah


-----Original Message-----
From: tale <d.lawrence at salesforce.com> 
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2022 8:47 PM
To: muhanad <muhanad at plciq.com>
Cc: bind-users <bind-users at lists.isc.org>
Subject: Re: Issue Using Wildcards for Subdimain Redirecing

On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 3:34 AM muhanad <muhanad at plciq.com> wrote:
> I have a main domain ( aa.example.com) with hunderds of subdomains ( bb.aa.example.com). I made a wildcard record to forward all subdomains (bb.) to a list of addresses in  round-robin fashion. The problem I am fscing is the wildcard is forwarding anything towards the the IP ( example , "cc.bb." which is not a vaild subdomain). How can I limit that so it will only forwards ( bb.aa.example.com) and drops any invalid subdomains ( cc.bb.aa.example.com ).
>
> Note: aa, bb, and cc being any arbitary value.

With a standard BIND zone, you can't.  Wildcards match multiple labels.  That goes to the earliest days of the DNS, https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1034#section-4.3.3.

You'd need a specialized handler to do this.
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tale