wild card question

[Farid Hamjavar]

On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Jim Reid wrote:

> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 10:50:25 +0200
> From: Jim Reid <jim at mpn.cp.philips.com>
> To: Farid Hamjavar <hamjavar at unm.edu>
> Cc: bind-users at vix.com
> Subject: Re: wild card question 
> 
> >>>>> "Farid" == Farid Hamjavar <hamjavar at unm.edu> writes:
> 
>     Farid> Can I remedy issue described below via usage of wild card?
>     Farid> If not, is there other way to accomplish this?
> 
>     Farid> Subdomain "xyz.unm.edu" has its dns server.
> 
>     Farid> At "unm.edu" level , how can I make all queries of type
>     Farid> *.abc.unm.edu to go to dns servers at xyz.unm.edu ?
> 
>     Farid> I guess I can do :
> 
>     Farid> *.abc.unm.edu IN A <IP of dns-server.xyz.unm.edu>
> 
>     Farid> Is that legal?  Is that correct way of doing it?
> 
> It's legal, but it probably doesn't do what you want. And it's not all
> that clear what you're trying to do. Do you want a wildcard A record
> or do you want to delegate abc.unm.edu and have all lookups for that
> domain go to dns-server.xyz.unm.edu.
> 


Barry Margolin responded with answer which was using a
NS record of like:

abc.unm.edu.  IN NS  dns-server.xyz.unm.edu.

Farid