How to create a root zone??

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Mon May 23 22:35:20 UTC 2005


You need to define a wildcard for *every* domain level that is otherwise 
mentioned in your zone file, including uu.nl. It's just the way DNS 
wildcards work...

- Kevin

Adrian P. van Bloois wrote:

>Hi,
>I'm trying to create an internal root zone for the wireless LAN. People
>will always get the vpn concentrator or a website to download the
>necessary software.
>Unfortunately the 
>*		IN	A	something.
>doesn't work.
>When browsing to *.nl addresses it says page not found, that's why we
>added the *.nl. entry.
>Just * is not enough.
>But now browsing to blabla.uu.nl gives page not found, instead of the
>website we intend them to go.
>Any help on this would be appreciated.
>Here is the root zone file we made:
>
>
>
>$ORIGIN .
>$TTL 86400
>.			IN SOA	. root.uu.nl (
>					2005051902
>					28800
>					7200
>					604800
>					86400
>				)
>
>.			IN NS	127.0.0.1
>
>.			IN A	131.211.16.207
>solisgate.uu.nl.	IN A	131.211.16.207
>safegate.uu.nl.		IN A	131.211.0.34
>safegate.uu.nl.uu.nl.	IN A	131.211.0.34
>portal1.test.myuu.nl.	IN A	131.211.5.56
>
>; Wildcard record to redirect all remaining names to 1 address. Whatever URL
>; a user enters in his browser, he will always be redirected to the webserver
>; running on the IP-address down here.
>*			IN A	131.211.16.207
>*.nl.			IN A	131.211.16.207
>
>
>  
>




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