Forwarders or the wildCard

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9ko93b$hpi at pub3.rc.vix.com>, Danie I. <danie62k01 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>Hi there, I need some help. 
>
>I have setup my subdomains entries as: 
>
>subdomain1.domain.com.  IN NS  ns1.anotherDNS.com. 
>                        IN NS  ns2.anotherDNS.com. 
>subdomain2.domain.com.  IN NS  ns1.anotherDNS.com. 
>                        IN NS  ns2.anotherDNS.com. 
>
>Now to continue adding delegation of  more subdomains  to 
>anotherDNS.com , may I add following: 
>
>*.domain.com.  IN NS ns1.anotherDNS.com. 
>               IN NS ns2.antoherDNS.com. 

I don't think wildcarding works for delegations.

>OR the FORWARDERS would be better?

Forwarders can't be used in place of delegations, because your server will
answer non-authoritatively after it caches the response.

You should just keep adding NS records for all the subdomains.

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