Putting weird characters into zone files ?

[Mark Andrews]

In message <65455.1411817467 at server1.tristatelogic.com>, "Ronald F. Guilmette" 
writes:
> 
> For a special project, I need to be able to create resource
> records within a BIND zone file where some of the domain
> labels in some of the FQDNs on the left-hand-side will need
> to be either (a) literal asterisks or else (b) literal
> exclamation marks.
> 
> What's the most proper way to do this?  Can I (should I) just
> use backslash escapes... like this?
> 
> \*.foo.bar	IN A	127.0.0.99
> \!.foo.bar	IN A	127.0.0.9

Well there is no way to escape a wildcard in the DNS.
As for the exclamation point just enter it.

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