README.wildcard

The way to use it is to add an LDAP entry with a relativeDomainName
containing a tilde (~). That will be pulled if a search for `name'
doesn't return a result. In other words, looking up host.x.com will
first search for `relativeDomainName=host' and if that returns no
results, a search for `relativeDomainName=~' will be performed.

During AXFR, labels containing a tilde (~) are translated back to
asterisk (*).


This is an example LDIF on what this can look like:

        dn: relativeDomainName=~,dc=domain,dc=tld
        objectClass: dNSZone
        relativeDomainName: ~
        zoneName: domain.tld
        dNSTTL: 1800
        dNSClass: IN
        cNAMERecord: host.domain.tld.


To enable this functionality, you will have to put a special option
in the database configuration line in the named.conf file like this:

	zone "example.com" {
	  type master;
	  database "ldap ldap://127.0.0.1/dc=com????!x-wildcard=true 172800";
	}

Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@bayour.com> 2008-07-19