TLD wildcard doesn't always work

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 04:27:50PM -0700, Chris Michels wrote:
> I did some further investigation.
> 
> First I need to say that my zone file list in the previous message is
> not complete.  I have about 13 A records and 11 PTR records in addition
> to the wildcard I had listed before. If I remove all the additional A
> records and PTR records the wildcard works fine.
> 
> With the wildcard and the additional records it won't resolve (via the
> wildcard) any .edu name that I can find.  So I added another wildcard like:
> 
> *.edu        IN      A      1.2.3.4
> 
> 
> Now it will resolve all .edu names but it won't resolve just 'edu'.
> 
> I really don't understand what is going on here.
...

The "*" by itself will match anything FOR WHICH YOU DON'T HAVE A
DECLARATION.  But you do have a declaration of something.something.edu.

The "*.edu" will not match "edu", of course - there is no "." in "edu".

I hope that this helps.


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Joe Yao
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