MX Record on a wildcard zone

[Warrick FitzGerald]

Aggg ... so easy when you know the answer :) -- Thnx.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Ehlke" <pde at ehlke.net>
To: "Warrick FitzGerald" <wfitzgerald at livetechnology.com>
Cc: "Bind Users" <bind-users at isc.org>
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 9:34 AM
Subject: Re: MX Record on a wildcard zone


>
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 09:16:06AM -0400, Warrick FitzGerald wrote:
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm setting up a test lab in which I need to send any .com resolution to
get
> > to a specific web server. - This works great with the setup below.
> >
> > However I'm trying to add an MX record that resolves any .com mail to
> > another server 10.10.52.114 in this case. Can someone please tell me why
> > this simple config below does not work, and how I could achieve this ?
> >
> [snip]
>
> > [root at TESTLINUX named]# cat com
> > $TTL 1d
> > @       IN      SOA     localhost. root.localhost.  (
> >                                       2002071201 ; Serial
> >                                       28800      ; Refresh
> >                                       14400      ; Retry
> >                                       3600000    ; Expire
> >                                       86400 )    ; Minimum
> >               IN      NS      localhost.
> > com.          IN      MX      10 mail
> >
> > *       IN      A     10.10.52.100
> > mail    IN      A     10.10.52.114
> >
>
> You've only defined an mx record for com. A.com. != com.
>
> If you really want a wildcard MX, you have to explicitly define one.
>
> -Pete
>
>
>