Regular Expressions Plug-In

This plug-in uses Regular Expressions (see standard syntax in Wikipedia) to pair host domain names to IP addresses.

This gives you much more flexibility than standard DNS wildcard records (*.example.com).

For example, you can match any part of a domain name, and use complex matching expressions.

NOTE: DNS data from plug-ins does not override existing local DNS zone data - but does take effect if the requested name does not exist in a local zone.

To setup a new Regular Expression plug-in instance; open the Options dialog / Plug-ins section, select the "Regular Expressions" component and click the "Create new instance..." button. This opens the Plug-In Instance dialog for the new Regular Expressions plug-in instance.

On the Plug-In Settings tab, you can add, edit, remove, and arrange regular expression / IP address pairs.

When you click the "Add" or "Edit" buttons, you can specify the following in the "Match host name" dialog:

•

If requested domain name matches this regular expression
Enter the regular expression here.
For example:
"euro" will match any domain name containing "euro" - like "accepteuros.com"
"^asia" will match any domain name starting with "asia" - like "asialiving.com".
"om$" will match any domain name ending with "om" - like "simpledns.com" and "example.zoom"

•	Respond with host record pointing to IP address Enter the IP address here. For example "1.2.3.4".

•	Host record TTL Specify the TTL value for the generated host record here.

Regular expressions are compiled when the server modules loads them and therefore run very efficiently in Simple DNS Plus.