[Pdns-users] Fallback wildcard

[Klaus Darilion]

Correcting myself: it seems taht the entry in the "domains" table is not
necessary. But you have to add a fake zone to records table by adding a
SOA record for "com".

regards
Klaus

Am 13.09.2011 08:35, schrieb Klaus Darilion:
> IIRC (you can verify it by enabling the mysql query log and looking at
> the DB-queries done by PowerDNS) PowerDNS requires also that there is a
> "zone" for the wildcard domain. Thus, make sure to have an entry for
> "com" in the "domains" table.
> 
> Regards
> Klaus
> 
> Am 12.09.2011 18:18, schrieb Chad Morland:
>> I am trying to configure my PDNS server to answer any queries that come
>> into my server. Basically I want to respond with a specific IP address
>> if the domain is not found in the database. I've enabled wildcards in my
>> config but it still doesn't seem to work. When I perform a lookup on a
>> domain that I know is not in the DB is still get a SERVFAIL response.
>> I am using CentOS 5.4 with these packages:
>> pdns-backend-mysql-2.9.22-3.el5
>> pdns-2.9.22-3.el5
>>
>> My config currently looks like this:
>> setuid=pdns
>> setgid=pdns
>> launch=gmysql
>> gmysql-host=localhost
>> gmysql-user=pdns_user
>> gmysql-password=XXXXXX
>> gmysql-dbname=power_dns
>> disable-axfr=yes
>> wildcards=yes
>>
>> I have this in the records table:
>>
>> mysql> select * from records where name ='*.com';
>> +---------+-----------+-------+------+--------------+------+------+---------------------+
>> | id      | domain_id | name  | type | content      | ttl  | prio |
>> change_date         |
>> +---------+-----------+-------+------+--------------+------+------+---------------------+
>> | 1540729 |    138961 | *.com | A    | 208.87.34.15 |  300 |    0 |
>> 2011-07-04 16:09:28 |
>> +---------+-----------+-------+------+--------------+------+------+---------------------+
>>
>> Also, is it possible to just have a '*' record so I don't need to have a
>> record for each TLD?
>>
>>
>>
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