Novel task for DNS.
Cricket Liu
cricket at nxdomain.com
Tue Jul 31 17:04:15 UTC 2001
> I work for ntl, a major UK ISP. One of our future products will include
> user accounts that can `expire', requiring the user to re-register (to
> some degree) to reactivate the account. We can (apparently) set up RADIUS
> on the modem racks such that anyone whose account has expired gets put
> into a specially constructed sandbox, from which they either re-register
> or logout. To ensure the user hits the re-registration system we want to
> set up a DNS server within the sandbox that resolves /any/ domain name to
> the IP address of the re-registration server.
>
> I think that this should be possible using BIND configuration files, but
> the timescales I have been given preclude (sadly) carrying out all the
> research myself.
>
> Has anyone else set up something similar using BIND? Or can someone
> categorically say `that can't be done'.
You can set up a root name server with a wildcard entry
that maps every domain name to the same IP address:
In named.conf:
zone "." {
type master;
file "db.root";
};
In db.root:
. IN SOA ...
IN NS ...
* IN A <your re-registration server's IP address>
cricket
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