Wildcard records???

[Tani Hosokawa]

An easier, but possibly unpleasant alternative... remove the search and/or
domain lines from your resolv.conf.  I expect that's why it'd doing that.
First it checks ahahahah.com, then it goes through all your search terms..
with no search terms, it'll just stop trying to resolve immediately.

On Fri, 2 Jul 1999 jeremy at xxedgexx.com wrote:

> 
> Hmm, well I don't really want the default behavior to allow such a thing.
> I think their goal was to allow people to mail anything.company.com for
> whatever reason.  But it's screwing up mail because if someone emails
> captainkirk at idonexist.com, it still gets pushed to the smtp server.
> 
> -jeremy
> 
> > I haven't checked into this, but you might be able to put a *.com.company.com in
> > your sendmail.cw, so anything coming into that would be acceptable.  I don't
> > know for sure if this is possible, but might be worth looking into.
> > 
> > Dan
> > 
> > jeremy at xxedgexx.com wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hello!
> > > 
> > > Is there any safe way to create a wild card record.  I just start working
> > > for a new company and they have a * in their record which appears to be
> > > causing a lot of problems with mail.  I've always stayed away from it
> > > cause I thought it was considered bad practice.
> > > 
> > > Problems we're having is with mail.  If we send mail to an invalid domain,
> > > it uses that name as a hostname.  For exmaple, I send mail to
> > > blah at ahahahahaha.com, it bounces but in the header we see this:
> > > 
> > > blah at ahahahahahaha.com.company.com
> > > 
> > > which is incorrect.  It causes load and unwanted behavior because no
> > > matter what address we put in place, it hits our smtp server because it
> > > put company.com at the end of any address.
> > > 
> > > Is there a safe way to use wildcard records, or do you think I should
> > > begin to convince them on getting rid of it.
> > > 
> > > Thanks
> > > -jeremy
> > > 
> > > http://www.xxedgexx.com | jeremy at xxedgexx.com
> > > ---------------------------------------------
> > > Y2K.  We're all gonna die.
> > 
> 
> 
> http://www.xxedgexx.com | jeremy at xxedgexx.com
> ---------------------------------------------
> Y2K.  We're all gonna die.
> 
> 

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tani hosokawa
river styx internet