Sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-subdomains

Wouter Van Crombruggen woutervc at skynet.be
Sun Jun 10 15:52:22 UTC 2001


You could simply put

*    IN A    <your IP>

It will work for any subdomain, but is not advisable on high load domains.

Check out any subdomain of testdomain.be, it should give you an Apache
testpage.

"Willy Kreim" <willykk at my-deja.com> wrote in message
news:9fr20r$nve at pub3.rc.vix.com...
>
> No, it's not a typo.
>
> My question is quite simple: I've read on how to set up subdomains on
> apache using the wildcard mask, but what about subdomains several
> levels deep?
>
> Do I need to create one DNS entry for every "subdomain level" so to
> speak?.
>
> Lets say I currently have... whatever... "cool.com" (then I'd sell it
> ;-). No I mean... lets pretend I have something like "cool.com". With
> "traditional" apache wildcard subdomains setup and the right entries
> on bind, I can have "anything.cool.com" "a.cool.com" "b.cool.com", etc
> all pointing to the same web page.
>
> But what if I want to do a hostname in the form
> "http://This.bind.is.really.cool.com"? That's 4 levels of
> subdomains.
>
> Can someone explain me how to setup something like this?
>
> Regards
> Willy
> PS: I'm posting this same question to the apache newsgroup since this
> involves setting up correctly both daemons.
>
>




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