wild card question

[Jim Reid]

>>>>> "Farid" == Farid Hamjavar <hamjavar at unm.edu> writes:

    Farid> Can I remedy issue described below via usage of wild card?
    Farid> If not, is there other way to accomplish this?

    Farid> Subdomain "xyz.unm.edu" has its dns server.

    Farid> At "unm.edu" level , how can I make all queries of type
    Farid> *.abc.unm.edu to go to dns servers at xyz.unm.edu ?

    Farid> I guess I can do :

    Farid> *.abc.unm.edu IN A <IP of dns-server.xyz.unm.edu>

    Farid> Is that legal?  Is that correct way of doing it?

It's legal, but it probably doesn't do what you want. And it's not all
that clear what you're trying to do. Do you want a wildcard A record
or do you want to delegate abc.unm.edu and have all lookups for that
domain go to dns-server.xyz.unm.edu.