Wildcards on A records

Koyo Wong koyo.wong at hk.china.com
Thu Feb 3 00:50:04 UTC 2000


Barry Margolin <barmar at bbnplanet.com> wrote in message
news:5w2m4.76$xI3.968 at burlma1-snr2...
> In article <879m08$pcj$1 at news.hk.linkage.net>,
> Koyo Wong <koyo.wong at hk.china.com> wrote:
> >Would like to know if wildcards are allowed for A records, in which
version
> >of BIND, how and any reference materials on this. We are using Solaris 7.
> >For example, we hope something like below is possible:
> >
> >*.mysubdomain.mydomain.com    IN    A   192.168.10.22
>
> Of course they are.  DNS lookup works the same way regardless of the
record
> type, so why do you think A records would be special in this regard?
>
> --
> Barry Margolin, barmar at bbnplanet.com
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Hi Barry, do you mean wildcard lookup (*.mysubdomain.mydomain.com) is
supported for any types of records (A, MX, etc.) in any version of BINDs? I
am uncertain of this.

Thanks.

Koyo





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