Does microsoft DNS server support * aliases?

[Danny Mayer]

This is the wrong forum to ask these questions.  You should be asking in
one of the Microsoft support newsgroups or asking Microsoft support.

         Danny
At 08:22 AM 3/1/02, Roger Birkeland wrote:

>Hello.
>
>I've got this problem/question:
>
>Does NT4.0 DNS-server support * alias in a proper way? I've set up the
>zonefile for a domain with a * alias, but when I query a DNS server via
>NSLookup, I does not get an ok answer. It surely differs from the answer the
>DNS-server is giving when I query for a domain hosted by a Linux-dns server.
>Why? Have I set the domain up wrong, or does not microsoft DNS support *
>aliases at all?
>
>This is the answers I get from the servers:
>
>Querytype in Nslookup: q=a
>
>Querying dns.somedomain.com --> some-alias-test.nt-hosted-domain.com:
>answer:
>server: dns.somedomain.com
>Address: ip.of.dns.somedomain.com
>Name: some-alias-test.nt-hosted-domain.com
>
>Querying dns.somedomain.com --> some-alias-test.linux-hosted-domain.com:
>answer:
>server: dns.somedomain.com
>Address: ip.of.dns.somedomain.com
>
>None-authorative answer:
>Name: linux-hosted-doman.com
>Address: ip.of.linux-hosted-domain.com
>Aliases: some-alias-test.linux-hosted-domain.com
>
>
>Hope someone understands my problem, and can help me!
>
>Regards,
>
>--
>Roger Birkeland
>