Using Wild card in DNS record for subdelegation

Mark Andrews Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Mon Oct 18 23:30:57 UTC 2004


> Recently I hv a requirement to subdelegate out any 3rd level domain of
> abc.com to another DNS server. Can I define as follow with a wild card
> ?

	No.  "* NS" has undefined semantics.
 
> Under the dbfile for the 2ndlevel.com zone file.
> $Origin abc.com IN SOA ....
> ..
> ..
> * IN NS     svr1.def.com.
> svr1.def.com.    IN A 55.55.55.55
> 
> 
> E.g, Anyone performing query to www.aaa.def.com; www.bbb.def.com;
> www.ccc.def.com; www.xxx.def.com ... will be forwarded to svr1.def.com
> name server.
> 
> Thanks alot
> VSSS
> 
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Mark Andrews, ISC
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