[Pdns-users] CNAME /24 block

Damian Gerow damian at sentex.net
Mon Sep 22 14:03:14 UTC 2003


Thus spake James (admin at oxygenshell.com) [21/09/03 21:13]:
>     I'm new to powerdns and I'm wondering if there is a easyier way to CNAME a CIDR.
>  
> Example
> 
> I have a company that needs CNAMEs to his whole /24 block of ips. How would i do this with 1 step and not 256 steps.

Try adding a wildcard record to the zone.  So for the name, you would use
'*'.  For the value, use whichever value you like.

(Verisign has provided an excellent reference example for this, but not using
.in-addr.arpa. (thank ${DIETY} they don't have control over /that/ TLD).)


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