How to forward multiple domains.

[scottsmith]

As a very lazy person what's the easiest / quickest way to forward say 300 domain names in my Nominet account (my TAG account) to one single URL? If they where with someone like 123 reg then there is an option in the control panel but Nominet don't seem to offer this?

I guess I could create each domain one by one on my dedicated server and then forward them but that would take days! Must be a simple way? How do you guys do it? Some kind of script?

Thanks in advance.

Scott

 

[jimm]

If you have a list of the domains its a trivial job to add them all to bind.

 

[jimm]

Im not going to write the script as I would have to actually do it and test it to get it perfect but the idea is within a bash script:

1. take your list of domains
2. break into single domains (maybe by line or comma etc)
3. for each domain echo your predefined zone file into a new file and add to the conf
4. when all thats done restart bind

Of course I could be hired to actually write it


[edit]
Another option would be a tiny server which would answer to any name pointed at its name servers.
This couldnt be used along side other decent zones and the server really must not be used for any kind of look up.
But its cheap and easy. A couple of people here have taken that from me and it works well for them.

 

[aquanuke]

If you have your own server then you can just add a wildcard to accept any domain. All you need is two entries one in the apache conf and a bind entry.

 

[jimm]

If you have your own server then you can just add a wildcard to accept any domain. All you need is two entries one in the apache conf and a bind entry.

But you wouldnt want to...
It can cause all sorts of issues if you havent got everything configured properly (ive seen yum, apache, the MTA, MySQL, monitoring software and other stuff all break) because everything gets resolved as local. For the sake of £15 a month I wouldnt be bothered with the effort to ensure everything still worked and was set up right.