Wildcard syntax

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:17:01AM +0000,
 andy thomas <andy at time-domain.co.uk> wrote 
 a message of 23 lines which said:

> The first A record works fine but named refuses to reload if the
> second entry with the ww* is in it. What is the correct syntax for a
> ww* wildcard. or is this just not possible?

It is not possible in the DNS. 

RFC 1034, section 4.3.3 :

Another way to look at this is that the "*" label always matches at
least one whole label and sometimes more, but always whole labels.