DNS wildcards: are they difficult to install?

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Mon Jun 28 22:32:35 UTC 1999


In article <37783FAB.38E6 at XXXtechnologist.com>,
Scientia  <scientia at XXXtechnologist.com> wrote:
>DNS wildcards: are they difficult to install?

No.  Just install records with the name "*".

>Hello
>Can anybody tell me if it is easy (and cheap) to install DNS wildcards
>on a server?
>I asked my provider to install them but it seems so difficult and
>expensive.

This makes no sense.  It's no harder to install them than any other DNS
records.

>Can you tell me also websites where to find this subject?
>I don't mean websites of Providers offering DNS wildcard services.
>I mean websites concerning the real software that my provider
>should install on the server.

It requires no special software.  Someone at your ISP is feeding you a load
of crap.

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