bind9 caches wildcard responses
Barry Margolin
barmar at alum.mit.edu
Fri Dec 23 17:30:30 UTC 2005
In article <dog4f9$kgq$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
sanjib das <hungrypenguinn at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
> As per RFC1034, responses for queries, which contain wildcard characters
> like (say, *.mydomain.com), should not be cached.....
> but my caching server caches this response....is this a bug to bind9
> or in real time scenario...it does not matter...
I can't think of a good reason for that prohibition. A cached wildcard
record should never shadow any real records on the authoritative server.
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