Wildcard DNS

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Fri Sep 12 02:45:07 UTC 2008


In article <gachqa$s4v$1 at sf1.isc.org>, Beavis <pfunix at gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings List,
> 
>   I wanted to ask for some advice with regards to setting up a
> wildcard dns, a box that I will set on all my domains (unused ones)
> that will point them to a specific page i want. is it possible to do
> this on just one zone file? one that will answer all the domains
> pointed to it?
> 
> Scenario:
> 
> If i have 5k domains, I want to  point all those domains to my bind
> box, and I want bind to answer them and point them to only one site
> that i specified. I don't want to create a zone file per domain.

Just use the same "file" parameter in all the zone statements.

zone "foo.com" {
 type master;
 file "wildcard.db";
};

zone "bar.com" {
 type master;
 file "wildcard.db";
};
....

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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