How to you configure DNS on a Windows 2000 server so that any queries sent to say *.abc.com zone get forwarded to a specific IP address. I have developers running a Apache web server with multiple virtual directories and they want any DNS queries which reference the zone abc.com that aren't already entered as an A record to be forwarded to the specific web server running Apache. I know this is something similar to what you do with MX records but I am unable to figure it out for regular host record. Thanks in advance.
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brontosaurus
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Go into the abc.com zone and add a new ALIAS (CNAME). Set the name to * and point the IP to your Apache server.
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brontosaurus
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You know, looks like you're right. I never actually tried it in W2K, but it works that way in every other OS I've encountered...heck, it's in the RFC's even...I'll check this out a bit more...
brontosaurus
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OK, I'm correcting myself. If you go into an NSLOOKUP session and enter any non-existent name, it resolves to the host that you pointed * to. However, you can't ping a non-existent name, that returns an unknown host. Now, the question is, why doesn't this work for you....?
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