wildcard cnames

[Barry Margolin]

In article <a8ddcu$en7 at pub3.rc.vix.com>, bert hubert  <ahu at ds9a.nl> wrote:
>In article <a8cnl5$bhr at pub3.rc.vix.com>, Barry Margolin wrote:
>
>>>Does anybody know of a legitimate use of wildcard CNAME records?
>> 
>> One of our customers has a bunch of domains that are all of the form:
>> 
>> @  A      x.x.x.x
>> *  CNAME  @
>
>Ok, this one does not add value and is exactly equivalent to 
>* 	IN	A 	x.x.x.x

If x.x.x.x changes, your way would require changing two records, the CNAME
method only requires changing one.  That's the general reason for my "Use
CNAMEs whenever feasible" preference -- the more things you have to change,
the more opportunity you have to get it wrong.


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