Trying to make NS resolve all requests to a certain ip

[Kevin Darcy]

First of all, NS records take names, not IP addresses.

Your nameserver apparently knows something about the name "domain.com", or some
intermediate zone (e.g. "com") and this more-specific information is overriding
your wildcard entry.


- Kevin

Mike K wrote:

> I have a box setup w/ bind8.  I want all requests to resolve to a certain
> ip.  Here's how I currently have it setup.  Any idea why it doesn't work?
>
> In my named.conf:
> zone "." {
>         type master;
>         file "named.root";
> };
>
> named.root:
>
> $TTL    3600
> @       IN      SOA     host.com. root.host.com.  (
>                                 2002043000        ; Serial
>                                 3600    ; Refresh
>                                 900     ; Retry
>                                 3600000 ; Expire
>                                 3600 )  ; Minimum
>         IN      NS      <box's ip>
> *       IN      A       <ip i want all requests to resolve to>
>
> This works when I try "nslookup w <box's ip>" ..... but "nslookup domain.com
> <box's ip>", it shows Can't find domain.com: Non-existent host/domain
>
> Any ideas?
>
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