NEWBIE - simple question.

[Barry Margolin]

In article <cn37tk$1udi$1 at sf1.isc.org>, kpipeg at hotmail.com (kpipeg) 
wrote:

> Hi folks!
> 
> FOA I must recognize that I have no idea about DNS configuration and I
> basically would like to know if it is possible one configuration
> before I start to learn the whole thing.
> 
> I basically would like to have one web-server say www.mydomain.com
> which will be accessed by all requests which contain mydomain.com  ie
> w2k.mydomain.com - ttt.mydomain.com - kkk.mydomain.com. where w2k, ttt
> and kkk do not have their own entry in the DNS configuration files.
> 
> Is it possible to have such configuration without specifying hundreds
> of servers or DNS protocols require specific ips for specific domain
> name?

Use a wildcard:

*.mydomain.com. IN A <address of server>

You'll also have to consult the documentation of the web server to see 
if it provides a way to support this.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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