Date:  Fri, 05 May 2006 06:04:48 -0400
From:  Brian Rahill <brian (at mark) rainstormconsulting.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:05044] Re: Catch all DNS
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
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Bruce Timberlake wrote:
>> How to setup with the dns panel a catch all for a domain name like
>> *.mydomain.com. I have every time this answers : The specified host name
>> contains invalid characters !

If you ssh into the machine and go to /etc/named/
You will see files like: db.example.com and db.example.com.include

Put your custom additions in the .include file and you should be all set.

You will need to issue:
rndc reload

That should reload the zone files.

Brian