syntax

[Charles Bodley]

really only using it for testing purposes. Our product has the idea of a
'control realm' and there could be multiple sites in the realm.
dev.thinkingfolders.com is the control realm and two sites in it would be
techs and developers. each would have their own email. since neither of
those are explicitly set the * works great. In the long run I would not do
it this way but for testing it's fine.

-----Original Message-----
From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org]On
Behalf Of Barry Margolin
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 1:40 PM
To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
Subject: Re: syntax


In article <9su7io$7k6 at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Charles Bodley <bodley at tflogic.com> wrote:
>
>Thanks for the help, totally missed that. Next question, would * apply to
>all records or all other? Wouldn't I still need to add MX records for
>anything that's defined.

It only applies to names that aren't explicitly defined, so you'll need to
add MX records to the names you define.

You might want to reconsider whether you really need this wildcard MX
record in the first place, though.  Why would someone put a nonexistent
hostname in an email address?  Why not have everyone simply using the
subdomain name in addresses, rather than hostnames?

--
Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
Genuity, Woburn, MA
*** DON'T SEND TECHNICAL QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO ME, post them to newsgroups.
Please DON'T copy followups to me -- I'll assume it wasn't posted to the
group.