Generic Zone File??

[Joe]

Thanks,

I was pretty sure it couldn't be done, but they kept asking and I couldn't 
find anything in the DNS book or on the isc site to show them.  My appoligies 
to everyone on the list( especially Bill) for creating such a long thread for 
a really stupid question.

Joe

On Friday 20 April 2001 14:04, you wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Joe wrote to Bill Larson:
> > Thanks, but I should have been more specific.  They want a ZERO
> > maintenance DNS server. So that everyone of their customers that
> > registers a domain and uses their DNS servers, it would resolve out to
> > their web server.  IE, no zone files, and no entries in named.conf.
> >
> > I have scripts that will automate the process, generate zone files,
> > add the entry to the conf file and HUP named, but they are wanting the
> > ZERO maintenance.
>
> Can't be done.  The generic zone file scenario others have already
> explained is about as close as you can get.  If you host domains for your
> customers then presumably your name servers are authoritative for your
> customers' domains.  In order for your name servers to know they are
> authoritative for those domains, there must be zone entries for every
> domain in each of your name servers' named.conf.  You can add them
> manually, or you can automate it with a script, but you must add them.
>
> TANSTAAFL