* in a zone file ?

Cricket Liu cricket at acmebw.com
Tue Aug 24 23:00:39 UTC 1999


> > > What does that astrix (*) mean ?
> >
> > It's a wildcard.  It matches zero or more labels.
>
> It matches one or more labels.

Sorry--absolutely right.  Wouldn't do much good to match zero labels, since
folks don't often send queries for ".<zone name>".

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