Wildcard DNS

[Ben Croswell]

Just make sure to use "relative" hostnames.
@ IN SOA blah blah
( )

www IN A 1.1.1.1
ftp    IN A 1.1.1.2

Etc.  That way the origin of whatever the zone was loaded as is used to
finish the hostnames.
In Barry's example, that zone loaded as he put it would make  www.foo.comand
www.bar.com point to 1.1.1.1 and ftp.foo.com and ftp.bar.com point to
1.1.1.2

-- 
-Ben Croswell

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:28 PM, Beavis <pfunix at gmail.com> wrote:

> Barry,
>
>   thanks for the reply, can you give me a bit of a hint with regards
> to the format of the actual zone?
>
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Barry Margolin <barmar at alum.mit.edu>
> wrote:
> > In article <gachqa$s4v$1 at sf1.isc.org>, Beavis <pfunix at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Greetings List,
> >>
> >>   I wanted to ask for some advice with regards to setting up a
> >> wildcard dns, a box that I will set on all my domains (unused ones)
> >> that will point them to a specific page i want. is it possible to do
> >> this on just one zone file? one that will answer all the domains
> >> pointed to it?
> >>
> >> Scenario:
> >>
> >> If i have 5k domains, I want to  point all those domains to my bind
> >> box, and I want bind to answer them and point them to only one site
> >> that i specified. I don't want to create a zone file per domain.
> >
> > Just use the same "file" parameter in all the zone statements.
> >
> > zone "foo.com" {
> >  type master;
> >  file "wildcard.db";
> > };
> >
> > zone "bar.com" {
> >  type master;
> >  file "wildcard.db";
> > };
> > ....
> >
> > --
> > Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
> > Arlington, MA
> > *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***
> >
> >
>
>