Wildcards on A records

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Wed Feb 2 22:49:37 UTC 2000


In article <879m08$pcj$1 at news.hk.linkage.net>,
Koyo Wong <koyo.wong at hk.china.com> wrote:
>Would like to know if wildcards are allowed for A records, in which version
>of BIND, how and any reference materials on this. We are using Solaris 7.
>For example, we hope something like below is possible:
>
>*.mysubdomain.mydomain.com    IN    A   192.168.10.22

Of course they are.  DNS lookup works the same way regardless of the record
type, so why do you think A records would be special in this regard?

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