Hi stable After having a look at what ISC did on bind9 for the latest .com and .net wild char responses, I have mimicked what they did in bind8. Basically they will only accept NS and SOA records for the TLD. Sorry but the TLD's I check are not configurable but fixed to .com and .net b.r. Flemming Kraglund patch RELENG_3 http://www.kraglund.net/fk/rel3-named.patch patch RELENG_4 http://www.kraglund.net/fk/rel4-named.patch and binaries for the lazy ones named RELENG_3 http://www.kraglund.net/fk/rel3-named named RELENG_4 http://www.kraglund.net/fk/rel4-named