Search Again: Re: Wildcards? From: Men & Mice Support Date: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 Time: 11:06:00 pm At 8:32 AM -0800 1/12/2000, Sam Lewis wrote: >I've seen one mention of wildcards in the QuickDNS manual but no >further explanation. > >Can QuickDNS be setup so that there are known addresses and then a >wildcard address so that any unknown address is sent to the wildcard >address? For example, a simple domain file: > > >samlewis.com ns ns.samlewis.com >samlewis.com mx 10 mail.samlewis.com >www.samlewis.com A 192.168.0.1 >*.samlewis.com A 192.168.0.2 > > >So that the domain acts normally for all "known" or defined >addresses but say a request for "xyz.samlewis.com" comes in. Since >it is unknown but a wildcard is setup it is directed to 192.168.0.2? > >Is this correct or possible? That is indeed how it works; "*.samlewis.com" will match "bogus.samlewis.com", but it will not match "www.samlewis.com", nor will it match "samlewis.com". Note that this can also be used for MX records. One thing to note is a configuration that, on first glance, looks like it should work, but in fact does not: *.example.com. MX 10 mail.example.com. users.example.com. A 192.168.0.1 mail.example.com. A 192.168.0.5 If mail is sent to "user@users.example.com", it will be delivered to "users.example.com", not "mail.example.com". This is because the wildcard MX record doesn't match "users" - "users.example.com" is already a defined name, with an A record. The fact that it doesn't have an MX record is immaterial. So to put it in terms of what *does* work: A wildcard record will match any name that doesn't have any other record of any kind. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton cbuxton@menandmice.com Men & Mice http://www.menandmice.com Makers of: QuickDNS Pro

Messages In This Thread: Wildcards? by Sam Lewis on Jan 12, 2000 at 4:32:00 pm Re: Wildcards? by Men & Mice Support on Jan 12, 2000 at 11:06:00 pm Re: Wildcards? by Paul Didzerekis on Jan 13, 2000 at 12:24:00 am