newbie question

[KMT]

Hi Kevin:

Well, here's a followup newbie question....

how do I set up the wildcard??

Keith

"Kevin Darcy" <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote in message
news:395946E7.8EA0F8CC at daimlerchrysler.com...
> KMT wrote:
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> > Using Apache/Bind 8 is the following possible....
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> > If a domain is NOT in the name server is it possible to default to
> > specifichtml page??  Kinda like a 404 error only at the DNS level??
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> You can add a wildcard to a zone that you control, and if some client asks
> about a non-existent name in that zone, it'll match the wildcard and
return
> that address instead. Hopefully that's all you want to do.
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> If you want the nameserver to return a wildcarded address for
> *any* non-existent Internet name, regardless of whether you control the
> containing zone or not, then this is not practical, since wildcards are
> zone-specific and you can't get everyone to add a wildcard to their zone
> pointing to your webserver. Such an effect would only be possible in an
> isolated, limited namespace.
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> - Kevin
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