Does bind 9 support regular expression in RR ?

Kelvin Ng Chee Hoong nchee_hoong at pacific.net.sg
Fri Jun 15 09:12:13 UTC 2001


" As far as I know for "IN A" we only have wildcard records. "

What do you mean that ?





Simon Waters wrote:

> Kelvin Ng Chee Hoong wrote:
> >
> > I would like to know
> > is there anybody has configured regular expression for  host record
> > (IN     A ) in DNS ?
>
> As far as I know for "IN A" we only have wildcard records.
>
> >      In RFC 2915 , I understand that NAPTR does support regular
> > expression . Does bind 9 support NAPTR resource record ? please advise
>
> They are in the code, but not the documentation AFAICT,
> although I've not had a need for them yet. Given the trouble
> people have with NS and PTR records I wonder if REGEXP are a
> good idea *8)
>
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