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Create bind records which match any query

Filed Under (DNS, Linux) by admin on 19-03-2009

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Today I was configuring a DNS server and noticed that not much reference on how to create records that match any host exists.

What I needed was to setup up a proxy server using a domain that was has its website and email externally hosted, while giving the LAN users the option to enter proxy.example.com as the proxy name server.  Basically, I needed the DNS server to return a local IP address for the proxy and the real Internet addresses for the other hosts.  I came with two possible solutions: Read the rest of this entry »