Wildcard for www.*.mydomain.co.uk is it possible ??

[Simon Waters]

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Cricket Liu wrote:
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> On Thursday, January 16, 2003, at 04:55  AM, Webmaster (Nemesis
> Services) wrote:
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>>I would like to know if it is possible for the following via
Bind 9.2.1
>>running on Linux
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>>www.*.domain.co.uk    goes to A record IPADDRESSHERE
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> No.  The wildcard must be the leftmost label.

Which is not to say that;

"www.simon.domain.co.uk" won't match "*.domain.co.uk", as it
will, it'll just match more than you want, and limit future
flexibility possibly.

(Of course it is easy enough to code an nsupdate into a user add
script instead).
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