Almost all non-existent domains resolve to localhost

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9m0ir1$5h4 at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
≈ chris ≈ <whirlwind at graffiti.net> wrote:
>
>Barry Margolin <barmar at genuity.net> wrote in message
>news:<9lu6oe$jr0 at pub3.rc.vix.com>...
>> >What could be causing this? 
>> A wildcard A record in your domain:
>> *.mydns.com. IN A 12.34.56.78
>
>Thanks, this was indeed the case.
>
>> As for why it doesn't happen to names ending in .com, my guess is that you
>> have an entry for com.mydns.com, which is shadowing the wildcard in that
>> case.  This seems unlikely to me, so there's probably another explanation
>> that I can't think of offhand.
>
>As you already thought, this wasn't the case :-)
>
>By the way, is there any way I can re-enable those wildcards without
>letting all non-existent domains resolve to local?

Reconfigure the client machines so that they don't try to append a default
domain suffix.  But this means that they'll have to spell out names in full
even when they're in your local domain, i.e. they can't type "hostname" as
an abbreviation for "hostname.mydns.com".

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