wildcard not working after record deleted

Tue Jun 20 15:08:44 UTC 2017

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Bryan Bradsby

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On Tue, 2017-06-20 at 10:51 -0400, Maria Iano wrote:
> 
> The queries are being directed at an authoritative server, exactly as
> you describe above.
> 
> We also pay for a secondary dns provider who pulls our zones from the
> same authoritative servers of ours which have this issue.
> The wildcard works when we send the query to one of our secondary
> provider's name servers.
> 
> Here is the answer from one of the secondary provider's servers:
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 9.10.2-P3 <<>> @<providers-server> <name> any
> 
> ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
> ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;<name>		IN	ANY
> 
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> <name>	300	IN	CNAME	<data-in-wilcard-record>

BIND does not allow a CNAME at the apex of the zone, some other flavors
of DNS servers allow this. 

Was the wildcard changed to a CNAME in the last edit?