Re: How to create a root zone??

You need to define a wildcard for *every* domain level that is otherwise
mentioned in your zone file, including uu.nl. It's just the way DNS
wildcards work...

- Kevin

Adrian P. van Bloois wrote:

>Hi,
>I'm trying to create an internal root zone for the wireless LAN. People
>will always get the vpn concentrator or a website to download the
>necessary software.
>Unfortunately the
>* IN A something.
>doesn't work.
>When browsing to *.nl addresses it says page not found, that's why we
>added the *.nl. entry.
>Just * is not enough.
>But now browsing to blabla.uu.nl gives page not found, instead of the
>website we intend them to go.
>Any help on this would be appreciated.
>Here is the root zone file we made:
>
>
>
>$ORIGIN .
>$TTL 86400
>. IN SOA . root.uu.nl (
> 2005051902
> 28800
> 7200
> 604800
> 86400
> )
>
>. IN NS 127.0.0.1
>
>. IN A 131.211.16.207
>solisgate.uu.nl. IN A 131.211.16.207
>safegate.uu.nl. IN A 131.211.0.34
>safegate.uu.nl.uu.nl. IN A 131.211.0.34
>portal1.test.myuu.nl. IN A 131.211.5.56
>
>; Wildcard record to redirect all remaining names to 1 address. Whatever URL
>; a user enters in his browser, he will always be redirected to the webserver
>; running on the IP-address down here.
>* IN A 131.211.16.207
>*.nl. IN A 131.211.16.207
>
>
>
>