Bind 9, Wildcard Records and Road Runner
Mark Foster
mark at foster.cc
Sat Oct 9 17:30:32 UTC 2004
Paul Vixie wrote:
> Anthony Eden <anthony at sdc-hawaii.co.mp> writes:
>
>
>>...
>>When a .mp domain is registered their site and associated services are
>>automatically created and are immediately available for the customers
>>use. We accomplish this by using a wildcard DNS record in bind for all
>>.mp domains:
>>
>>*.mp. IN A 66.135.225.102
>>
>>This record can be found in the mp zone file. When a site doesn't exist
>>they still see a page displaying a message.
>
>
> you don't need a wildcard for this, and some recent widely deployed changes
> will keep it from working reliably in a tld, in any case. use ddns.
If the wcard draft is standardized, records like
www.*.mp. IN A 66.135.225.102
become acceptable, true?
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