Wildcard zone

[Ron Hall]

Daniel Foster wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I need to create a wildcard zone, kind of like Sitefinder.  I can't seem 
>to make bind 9 accept this.  Following is the contents of my named.conf:
>
>options {
>         directory "/etc/namedb";
>}
>
>zone "*" {
>         type master;
>         file "wildcard.zone";
>};
>
>And here's the contents of wildcard.zone:
>
>$TTL 86400
>@ IN SOA ns.wildcardtest.34sp.com. hostmaster.34sp.com. (
>         1
>         10800
>         3600
>         604800
>         86400
>         )
>    IN NS   ns.wildcardtest.34sp.com.
>
>*   IN A    192.168.0.2
>ns  IN A    192.168.0.1
>
>On running named, I get the following through syslog
>
>named[55848]: starting BIND 9.2.2
>named[55848]: using 1 CPU
>named[55848]: loading configuration from '/etc/namedb/named.conf'
>named[55848]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953
>named[55848]: command channel listening on ::1#953
>named[55848]: dns_master_load: wildcard.zone:9: *: invalid NS owner name 
>(wildcard)
>named[55848]: zone */IN: loading master file wildcard.zone: invalid NS 
>owner name (wildcard)
>
>I've fiddled around in the zone file a lot and can't find where the 
>problem lies - anyone got any ideas?
>
>  
>
Not to sound obtuse, but where 'zackly is ns.wildcardtest.34sp.com defined?
You need to have a vaild (i.e. FQDN) for the NS record......

r