Wild cards in zone file
Matus UHLAR - fantomas
uhlar at fantomas.sk
Tue May 24 09:25:53 UTC 2011
On 24.05.11 09:55, John Kennedy wrote:
> I tried to google this but could not hit the right keywords (been a long
> week)...
>
> I have 3 hosts on a domain (example.com) like so:
>
> int.project A 10.10.10.2
> stage.project A 10.10.10.3
> test.project A 10.10.10.4
>
> Now I want everything else to go to 10.10.10.5
> *.project A 10.10.10.5
>
> Is this possible?
yes, this is how wildcards work. Note that this could have side effects,
e.g. anyone can use randomnonexistingdomain.project.example.com as source
address for spam e-mails, and many others.
I advise only use wildcards for cases they are REALLY needed.
see RFC4592 for more informations about DNS wildcards.
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