About the wildcards.

[Ariel Manzur]

At 14:46 14/10/1999 +0000, Barry Margolin wrote:
>In article <4.1.19991010200314.00b759c0 at 209.132.1.30>,
>Ariel Manzur  <punto at anime.com.ar> wrote:
>>Is there anything wrong with this, or it just impossible to do it? What I
>>want is to map only domains that doesn't exist to localhost, and the rest
>>to the real IP.. Is there any way to do this?
>
>In many cases, it should be sufficient to put a wildcard in your own
>domain.  When an application looks up "xxx.nonexistentdomain.com", it will
>first try using that as a fully-qualified name.  If this fails, it will
>then try appending the host's default domain (or each of the domains in its
>search list in turn), so it will try to look up
>"xxx.nonexistentdomain.com.<yourdomain>".  This will match the wildcard in
>your domain, and return the address you specified.

What if I use "nslookup nonexistentdomain.com."? (or the resolver is not
searching any domain?)

Thanks.. Bye.

Ariel.