Star Addressing for DNS

[Scott.Wiseman]

I read the wildcard, this deals with mail.

I am talking about

subdomain1.domain.com	
subdomain2.domain.com	
subdomain3.domain.com	
subdomain4.domain.com	
subdomain5.domain.com	

or
*.domain.com

would mean the same thing

and 
subdomain6.domain.com	

would be ok or
whatever.domain.com
would be ok


-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Margolin [mailto:barmar at genuity.net]
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 3:28 PM
To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
Subject: Re: Star Addressing for DNS


In article <5DEF109335DAD111B05F00A0C9DDFC023398B2 at ROCHS2>,
Scott.Wiseman <scott.wiseman at realestatenet.com> wrote:
>With mail I can have *@domain.com

What do you mean by this?  What does that do, send the message to everyone
with an account in the domain?  AFAIK, sendmail doesn't support that, but
maybe some other mailers do.

>Can I do this a zone table

Do what?  DNS allows you to create *.domain.com entries, and they'll be
used as a default for any names that don't exist explicitly.  Look up
"wildcard" in the DNS & BIND book.

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