Multiple domains pointed to the same IP

Cricket Liu cricket at acmebw.com
Sun Dec 12 20:37:06 UTC 1999


> if there were a *.bar.com entry in hosts.allow, it would not be possible
to
> do a forward lookup and get all the possible addresses (many DNS servers
do
> not allow random clients to perform zone transfers, which is what is
needed
> to implement a wildcard).

Heck, figuring out which addresses *.bar.com equated to, using
forward-mapping, could take quite a number of zone transfers,
since you'd have to allow for delegated subzones of bar.com.

cricket

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