Microsft Secondary probs

[Barry Margolin]

In article <a3n2kt$9rp at pub3.rc.vix.com>, Jon Booth  <jon at lucidlogic.com> wrote:
>
>I seem to be having the following problems with a Microsoft 2000 Server
>transferring from a Bind 8.x server
>
>I have to delete and reenter the domain as secondary. into windows if I
>want it to update. (domain example lucidlogic.com). Is there any common
>reason why this would happen?

Are you incrementing the serial number on the master server when you make
changes?

>If I have a wildcard * cname windows doesn't recoginize it. www.domain.com
>won't resolve but *.domain.com does. Is there any fix?

The DNS specification never says that wildcard CNAME records should work.
BIND supports them, but I don't think it's appropriate to assume all
servers do.

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