Wildcard MX not working correctly

[Mark Andrews]

> Good people of the DNS world, i am having fun with wildcard MX.
> 
> I am trying to have all my second level domains to be sent to a single
> mail host. So things like:
> 
>    a.mydomain.com
>    b.mydomain.com
> 
> to all go to the same MX host.  However i am failing to get this to
> work.  I am running Bind9.3.1 on Fedora4.
> 
> I have this in my ZONE file:
> 
> mydomain.org.          IN      MX 10 mail.mydomain.com.
> list.mydomain.org.     IN      MX 10 list.mydomain.org.
> *.mydomain.        IN      MX 10 email.mydomain.org.
> 
> which according to all the howto's is how it should be; unless i am
> misreading something.  But when i test this configuration using
> http://www.dnsstuff.com/ it tells me it can't find an MX record for
> "a.mydomain.com".  All the other MX records are resolved correctly.
> 
> What am i missing?  Many thanks.

	Posting the full zone file and the real query that is failing.

	How do you expect anyone to answer based on obviously incomplete
	and incorrect information.

	Mark
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