Wildcards?

[Cricket Liu]

Jason Brown <jason.brown at kingston-internet.net> wrote in message
news:<7rimj6$vi6$1 at newsreader3.core.theplanet.net>...
> I wanted to add a wild card of www.* within my domain, but it doesnt work,
> an nslookup for www.anything.karoo.net should have shown a result of CNAME
> brownbear, but instead it cannot resolve it.
> A nslookup of www.*.karoo.net does show a result of CNAME brownbear.
> why didnt it work?
>
> I did get around this by just adding:
> *                                                   28800   CNAME
> brownbear
>
> Within my zone file. This works but not as I wanted it!!! why didnt www.*
> work?

The wildcard must be the leftmost label in the domain name, according to RFC
1034.

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