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[Kevin Darcy]

sanbat at gmail.com wrote:
> I'm looking to set up a DNS server to do domain name parking.  I'd
> like it to resolve any domain requests to a particular IP address,
> without having to set up separate zone files in advance.  Is this
> possible to do, and if so how?
>   
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_parking, "domain 
parking" means setting up an "under construction" site, or an 
advertising site, under a domain name that isn't fully populated with 
content yet.

 From a DNS infrastructure standpoint, a "parked" domain is no different 
than a regular domain that's been registered and set up. It's just a 
difference in web content.

What *you* want to do is to *wildcard* domain names. You can do that by 
setting up a "fake" root zone on this particular nameserver, with a 
wildcard entry in it, or perhaps multiple wildcard entries, if you want 
to cover IPv6 as well. Just be careful to only serve those faked answers 
to your own clients; there are still some folks out there running 
ancient versions of DNS resolvers that could get "polluted" by your 
bogus responses if they see them.

                                                                         
                  - Kevin