Wildcard Master Zone DNS - Help!

[Michael Kjorling]

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Of course you COULD do it this way, but it is a BAD BAD BAD BAD thing
to do. You are effectively telling your server to become authorative
for the com TLD, which first of all will render anything .com
inaccessible. Furthermore, you have to make absolutely certain that
this information doesn't propagate, or many are going to get upset
with you.

What's wrong with writing a short script that copies a template zone
file and then makes the necessary additions to your /etc/named.conf? I
could do that in 10 lines of bash shell script.


Michael Kjörling


On May 27 2001 04:23 -0000, warren wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> I am a Linux/DNS newbie and I would really appreciate some help regarding
> setting up a Parked DNS configuration on my web server.
>
> I would like to know how to set my Bind 8 DNS/Apache up so that everytime I
> register a new domain name and input my server's name servers and the domain
> finishes propagating, it will automatically be forwarded to a "parked" page
> or IP address on my server without any DNS master zone file additions or
> vhost modifications.  I have seen it done before and I would really like to
> know how since I register a large amount of domains that do not require any
> setup immediately.
>
> Would it be something like this in the master zone file?
>
> *.com.  IN   A   123.123.123.123
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> - Warren

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