wildcards in the domain of an A resource record

[Brad Knowles]

At 4:43 PM -0500 6/25/01, Dykes Greg-FGD008 wrote:

>  Does anyone know if the DNS 'Answer' message contains the actual domain name
>  to which the RR pertains or just the exact Query Name? For a standard,non
>  wildcard sceanrio, these would be the same. However,  I have a wildcard
>  entry and was hoping to be able to receive this exact domain name
>  (*.domainname.test.lab.) in the DNS answer.

	Nope, with a wildcard record, you never see the star -- you only 
get back the query that matches.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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