* in a zone file ?
Cricket Liu
cricket at acmebw.com
Tue Aug 24 21:55:51 UTC 1999
RJHM van den Bergh <rvdb at nedernet.nl> wrote in message
news:<935526202.19450.0.pluto.c29fe22b at news.demon.nl>...
> I do have a question about the dns zone file.
> I looked up the content of the domain I registered.
>
> I did found an unknown RR configuration in the zone file.
> * A 212.204.192.3
> What does that astrix (*) mean ?
It's a wildcard. It matches zero or more labels.
> I've soon have to setup my own domain server.
> And I couldn't found it in my books or the dns howto.
Good grief, which books do you have?
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