Is bind right for this scenario?

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Mon Oct 8 12:16:41 UTC 2007


In article <fe9nd4$2qnr$1 at sf1.isc.org>, java97301 at yahoo.com wrote:

> I need to be able to have multiple urls which would look like
> customer1.mydomain.com, customer2.mydomain.com, etc .  I would then
> get a wildcard ssl certificate that would handle all the
> *.mydomain.com.  Then could bind be used to resolve *.mydomain.com to
> point to our individual ip addresses.  Basically mydomain.com would

You can't use a wildcard DNS record for this, you would have to have 
separate records:

customer1 IN A 192.168.0.1
customer2 IN A 192.168.0.2
etc.

> resolve to our machine and bind would resolve the customerX portion to
> 192.168.0.1, 192.168.0.2, etc.  Where my machine is virtually
> multihomed so that it has multiple virutal ip addresses associated to
> the one physical ethernet card.  Then  different instances of tomcat
> could listening to 192.168.0.1 port 80 and 192.168.0.2 port 80?
> 
> Thanks for any advice !!

Should work fine as far as DNS is concerned.  I don't know anything 
about wildcard SSL certificates, though.

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