Wildcard DNS with BIND

Solution 1:

Your origin for the zone is . per your configuration. You are creating records for ns1. and ns2. instead of ns1.example.com. and ns2.example.com. Since ns1.example.com and ns2.example.com aren't defined, they are matched by the wildcard.

EDIT: here's an edit of your config and zone:

zone "example.com." {
        type master;
        file "ext.zone";
};

ext.zone:

$TTL    3600
@       IN      SOA     ns1 root (
                              1         ; Serial
                         3600         ; Refresh
                          300         ; Retry
                         3600         ; Expire
                         300 )        ; Negative Cache TTL


        IN      NS      ns1
        IN      NS      ns2
        IN      A       192.0.2.6


ns1     IN      A       192.0.2.4
ns2     IN      A       192.0.2.5

*      IN      A       192.0.2.6

Everything in the zone is relative to the zone name in the named configuration, so adding a second zone just points to the same file:

zone "example.net." {
    type master;
    file "ext.zone";
};

Solution 2:

To set a subdomain wildcard in bind you should use the following format:

name.tld.   IN  A   IP    # main domain ip
*.name.tld. IN  A   IP    # wildcard subdomains ip

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Example:

mydomain.com.   IN  A   1.1.1.1
*.mydomain.com. IN  A   1.1.1.1