[Re: [many subdomains one ip]]

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Thu Jun 14 18:38:17 UTC 2001


You can do that with a wildcard A record, but be very careful how you use
wildcards, since they can have unexpected results, especially in the
context of SMTP routing.


- Kevin

x x wrote:

> i don't want to enter ne CNAME or A for
> each new subdomain.
> how do xoom.com, angelfire and tons of other sites do it ?
> eg. try to lookup kjuao376ef278346234anything.jeeran.com
>
> how could i do that ?
>
> >> Use CNAME in the zone file.
> >>
> >> site.com. IN CNAME 192.168.1.1 <---- use IN A here!!!!!!!
> >> sub1.site.com. IN CNAME site.com.
> >> othersub.site.com. IN CNAME site.com.
> >
> > could someone please tell me how
> > to make *.site.com point to site.com
> >
> > can this be achieved with bind ?
>
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