Changing output of bind

Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzmeyer at nic.fr
Mon Dec 11 14:14:57 UTC 2006


On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 02:08:58PM +0100,
 RZ <rz at razfazz.at> wrote 
 a message of 35 lines which said:

> >If you are interested in the data you posted here, why not including
> >them in your zone file? Why modifying BIND?
> 
> because the 'user' thinks that this is not possible

It is difficult to find someone who is more at ease with C source code
edition than with BIND zone files edition...
 
> this special named shall generate a positive (standard?) answer for
> zones/domainnames that are not in the current zonefile;

You mean that a query for the A record of www.itdoesnotexist.fr should
produce a A record wherever itdoesnotexist.fr "exists" or not?

> if there is an entry for example.com - take the 'correct' data if
> there is no entry for example.com - generate a default _positive_
> output

This is called wildcards. It works and, most of the time, it is a bad
idea. See http://www.icann.org/registries/rsep/tralliance_report.pdf
why.



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