Question

I hope you’ll forgive me for thinking that configuring a DNS server would be easy. It turns out it is quite hard… especially if you never did it before.

To recap a little, I previously asked if someone could recommend a personal DNS server for Windows XP for use in a development project.

My basic wish is to host a DNS server that represents the following lookup table:

 Address          | IP ------------------+--------------  *.devdomain1.dev | 192.168.10.2  *.devdomain2.dev | 192.168.10.2 

Do you know how to setup this in BIND 9? Or maybe there is an easier solution that I’ve overlooked. I know I could add the individual subdomains in my HOSTS file but since we have a lot of subdomains which has to be maintained on several dev machines I would rather have a simple wildcard setup.

Answer 1

A zone file like this should suffice (on my system this would be in /etc/bind/zones/devdomain2.dev.hosts)

devdomain2.dev. IN SOA localhost. johannesh.devdomain2.dev. (         1102522753         10800         3600         604800         38400 )  devdomain2.dev.    IN      NS     localhost. *.devdomain2.dev.   IN      A      192.168.10.2 

Then my /etc/bind/named.conf.local would reference this as follows

zone 'devdomain2.dev' {         type master;         file '/etc/bind/zones/devdomain2.dev.hosts'; }; 

(Note you could adapt this just wildcard .dev domain entirely, or set up another zone for devdomain1)