Wildcards in MX Record Domain Names

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Sat Dec 11 07:05:02 UTC 1999


In article <38512768.A5A3BD65 at bos.frb.org>,
Robert Setterlund  <robert.setterlund at bos.frb.org> wrote:
>Are the below MX records supported in Bind 8.X?
>
>*.org   IN   MX   10   firewallrelay.mayo.org
>*.gov   IN   MX   10   firewallrelay.mayo.org
>*.        IN   MX    10  firewallrelay.mayo.org
>
>These were supported in earlier versions but I have heard the support
>was dropped
>in version 8.

Since wildcards are required by the DNS specification, it would be
extremely wrong if it were removed from BIND.

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