bind9 caches wildcard responses

[Barry Margolin]

In article <dog4f9$kgq$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 sanjib das <hungrypenguinn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
> As per RFC1034, responses for queries, which contain wildcard characters
> like (say,  *.mydomain.com), should not be cached.....
> but my caching server caches this response....is this a bug to bind9
> or in real time scenario...it does not matter...

I can't think of a good reason for that prohibition.  A cached wildcard 
record should never shadow any real records on the authoritative server.

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