Set a default reply in BIND

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Fri Jun 17 23:58:41 UTC 2005


In article <d8v1o2$309k$1 at sf1.isc.org>, Elias <elias at streamyx.com> 
wrote:

> Hi,
> Is there anyway to configure BIND to return a single default answer if it is 
> not authoritative for that zone? For eg if I'm authroritative for abc.com, 
> the server will return everything related to abc.com (and this is already 
> working) but when somebody queries for xyz.com, 123.com, 
> 1.2.3.4.in-addr.arpa, etc it should just return one same answer. Is there 
> anyway to put a wildcard for this?

Make your server authoritative for the root zone, and put a wildcard in 
the root zone file.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
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