Catchall Account and NL NIC

Andreas John <lists-qqKX2RIXbnLLeiHq/[email protected]> Thu, 01 Jun 2006 12:34:24 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.isp.ispman.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello All,
(cc to my nic.nl-cursing colleague),

I activated catchall DNS for my ispman server. When trying to register a
.nl domain, and having not set an A record for the particular domain
("mydomain.nl"), will cause an error in the pre-flight check of NL NIC.

E CNAME record dataveld is zelf een alias (RFC1034)
[localhost.mydomain.nl. CNAME catchall.mydomain.nl.]

So, we seem to violate RC1034 (/me never read that, but ....)

I was able to workaround by creating a A record for "catchall.mydomain.nl.".

But having a dangeling CNAME for "*" is not very nice. The correct way
would be to to prevent the entry being created, if it does not resolve
to an A record (or a different CNAME?)

To make it clear: This part in the zone file should *not* be created, if
there is no a record for "catchall":

; RR RECORDS
*                       IN      CNAME   catchall

I assume the "ispman.ldap2named" or the zone-file template is the right
way to patch? Is it possible to do that in the template? (Would be nicer).

rgds,
Andreas