Star Addressing for DNS

[Barry Margolin]

In article <5DEF109335DAD111B05F00A0C9DDFC023398B5 at ROCHS2>,
Scott.Wiseman <scott.wiseman at realestatenet.com> wrote:
>I read the wildcard, this deals with mail.

So?  Wildcards work the same way regardless of the record type.

>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

*.domain.com.  IN MX 10  mail.domain.com.

Depending on the mail server software on mail.domain.com it might handle
this automatically or require you to explicitly configure it to accept mail
for any subdomain.

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