wildcarding everything

[Ben Bridges]

What specifically are you intending to wildcard?  "com."?  "net."?  "."?
If so, then you would be implicitly making your name servers
authoritative for domains for which your servers are not supposed to be
authoritative.

Ben Bridges



> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounces at lists.isc.org 
> [mailto:bind-users-bounces at lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Scott Haneda
> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 3:31 AM
> To: bind-users at lists.isc.org
> Subject: wildcarding everything
> 
> Hello, I am wondering the technical possibility of a DNS 
> change.  Even if it is technically possible, I also want to 
> make sure it is compliant as well.
> 
> I would like to resolve any and all requests to a fixed IP, 
> if there is no zone in place.  While I understand I can 
> create a zone for *.example.com and resolve all of the * 
> portion to an A record and further have a web server take over...
> 
> What I am looking to do now, is have the very act of having my two  
> NS's listed as NS's with their domain, resolve to an A record.   
> Essentially, wildcard the entire DNS machine.
> 
> There may be cases where a real zone is put in place, to a 
> different A record, and that would need to take priority, but 
> if it does not, I would like to resolve it.
> 
> The NS's in question will not be answering for recursive 
> queries, so I am not worried about local requests getting 
> hijacked or mis-routed.
> 
> An example would be:
> some-domain-foo.com is registered. My NS of ns-me.example.com 
> is set up and working, but does not have some-domain-foo.com 
> entered as a zone.  When a request comes in for 
> some-domain-foo.com I want an A record for an IP of my 
> choice, also for www.some-domain-foo.com as well.
> 
> Possible?  Acceptable?
> 
> Thanks.
> --
> Scott
> 
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