Non-terminal wildcards?

[bmanning at ISI.EDU]

> 
> cricket at acmebw.com:
> > Anyone have any reaction to that message I sent a few weeks ago about
> > non-terminal wildcards working in BIND 8?
> 
> Lars responds...
> ;-)
> 
> My mind boggles. I'm trying to figure out the effects of having ...
> 
> mail.*.doubletree.com.		IN		<something>
> *.doubletree.com.		IN		<something else>
> subdomain.doubletree.com.	IN NS		<subdomserver>
> 
> .. and have the outer world query for mail.subdomain.doubletree.com,
> but my brain refuses to attempt to do the calculation. ;-)

Or, for the more exotic experience;

  subdomain.*	IN	<someotherthing>

-- 
--bill