newbie question

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Wed Jun 28 00:29:27 UTC 2000


KMT wrote:

> Using Apache/Bind 8 is the following possible....
>
> If a domain is NOT in the name server is it possible to default to
> specifichtml page??  Kinda like a 404 error only at the DNS level??

You can add a wildcard to a zone that you control, and if some client asks
about a non-existent name in that zone, it'll match the wildcard and return
that address instead. Hopefully that's all you want to do.

If you want the nameserver to return a wildcarded address for
*any* non-existent Internet name, regardless of whether you control the
containing zone or not, then this is not practical, since wildcards are
zone-specific and you can't get everyone to add a wildcard to their zone
pointing to your webserver. Such an effect would only be possible in an
isolated, limited namespace.


- Kevin




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