A/zone entry using wildcard.

[Kevin Darcy]

$GENERATE 1-999 test${0,3,d} A 127.0.0.1

                                                                         
                  - Kevin

Fabiano Silos Reis wrote:

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>It is a shame. I have a zone already created and inside this zone I
>Need to create A entries pointing to the same ip address. 
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>Example:
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>test001 IN A 127.0.0.1
>test002 IN A 127.0.0.1
>test003 IN A 127.0.0.1
>...
>testN	  IN A 127.0.0.1
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>N is a number between 001 and 999.
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>Thank you!
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On Behalf
>Of Kevin Darcy
>Sent: quinta-feira, 22 de setembro de 2005 20:35
>To: bind-users at isc.org
>Subject: Re: A/zone entry using wildcard.
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>Fabiano Silos Reis wrote:
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>>Hi list,
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>>I would like to know if it is possible to register a entry using wildcard
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>>named like:
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>>test*	IN A 127.0.0.1
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>>In a way that when I execute 'nslookup test001.mydomain' I get the address
>>127.0.0.1. 
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>>Other question is, can I register a zone entry using wildcard?
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>>Example:
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>>zone "test*.domain" {
>>       type master;
>>       file "zones/test.domain";
>>};
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>No. Not possible in BIND. The DNS protocol defines a wildcard mechanism, 
>but it only matches 1 or more whole labels.
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>Of course, you could always just put 1 or more wildcard records into 
>"domain" itself and not have any subzones. The wildcard would match the 
>name "test001.domain" and anything else under "domain" that wasn't 
>already explicitly defined.
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>>If no for both questions, do someone know a patch to make named answer
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>using
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>>this wildcard?
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>I know of no such patch.
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>            - Kevin
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