Wildcard A Record

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9iutum$39a at pub3.rc.vix.com>, Lento Yip <lento at netfront.net> wrote:
>Does bind has a feature to map wildcard names to a fixed address ? e.g.
>*.domain.com to a fixed IP no matter what * is. Thanks.

It does it using the standard DNS wildcard feature.

* IN A 1.2.3.4

The wildcard only matches names that don't otherwise exist in the domain,
as specified in the DNS standard.  So if there's some name that has an MX
record and you want it to have this address, you'll need to give it an A
record explicitly; the wildcard won't apply to it.

Couldn't you have found this out much quicker by looking up "wildcard" in
the DNS&BIND index?

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