Return a default record for invalid requests (non existent domain).

Robert Messinger lists at mail.tiggee.com
Wed Sep 4 15:12:15 UTC 2002



I have had many people throw their NS records on our DNS servers.
Just to either park them or to kill off old links and requests.

But since the domains do not exist on my nameserver they are
getting slammed my these invalid requests (and I don't believe
the negative response is cached since the domain does not exist).

In BIND is it possible to return a default record for domains which
do not exist on the system?  Is it even legal to give back an 
answer?  (I feel like sending everyone to a porn site or something.)
It's bandwidth to our systems so I believe I can return whatever I want
but I may be wrong here.  But there are over 500,000 invalid requests
a day for some domains.


Thanks for any insight.



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