Putting weird characters into zone files ?
Mark Andrews
marka at isc.org
Sat Sep 27 14:26:08 UTC 2014
In message <65455.1411817467 at server1.tristatelogic.com>, "Ronald F. Guilmette"
writes:
>
> For a special project, I need to be able to create resource
> records within a BIND zone file where some of the domain
> labels in some of the FQDNs on the left-hand-side will need
> to be either (a) literal asterisks or else (b) literal
> exclamation marks.
>
> What's the most proper way to do this? Can I (should I) just
> use backslash escapes... like this?
>
> \*.foo.bar IN A 127.0.0.99
> \!.foo.bar IN A 127.0.0.9
Well there is no way to escape a wildcard in the DNS.
As for the exclamation point just enter it.
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