Search Again: Re: how to implement wildcards? From: Men & Mice Support Date: Thursday, February 3, 2000 Time: 12:59:00 pm At 1:42 AM -1000 2/3/00, Donovan Watts wrote: >Aloha.. > >I"m hosting manila based Frontier websites whereby folks can sign up for a >site and have it ready to go almost immediately. New site URL's take the >form: > >yoursitename.websurfhawaii.com > >But in order for this to work I need to do the following: (from the docs) > >---start of docs--- >Setting up DNS > >Some background is necessary: we'll use EditThisPage.Com as an example. > >The home page of the ISP site is at www.editthispage.com. Created sites are >created at *.editthispage.com, where * is any name. > >You'll need to set up DNS so that this will actually work. Many DNS servers >allow you to create a * entry so that all host names are mapped to the same >machine. > >So: choose your domain name, and make sure DNS is set up so that >*.mydomain.com points to your server. (Of course, replace mydomain.com with >your actual domain name.) >---end of docs--- > >So, how do I do this? I tried putting in a * cname record but that didn't >work. What about it didn't work? This is exactly what should work. You might even want to give them email, such as "user@yoursitename.websurfhawaii.com". In this case, you'd want more wildcard records: *.websurfhawaii.com. CNAME frontier.websurfhawaii.com. *.websurfhawaii.com. MX 10 mail.websurfhawaii.com. *.websurfhawaii.com. MX 15 mail2.websurfhawaii.com. *.websurfhawaii.com. MX 20 ns1.lava.net. *.websurfhawaii.com. MX 30 lists.websurfhawaii.com. Just be aware that this won't work for any name that already has any other record. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton cbuxton@menandmice.com Men & Mice http://www.menandmice.com Makers of: QuickDNS Pro

Messages In This Thread: how to implement wildcards? by Donovan Watts on Feb 3, 2000 at 11:42:00 am Re: how to implement wildcards? by Men & Mice Support on Feb 3, 2000 at 12:59:00 pm Re: how to implement wildcards? by Thomas A. Creedon on Feb 3, 2000 at 6:47:00 pm Re: how to implement wildcards? by Men & Mice Support on Feb 3, 2000 at 6:55:00 pm Re: how to implement wildcards? by Donovan Watts on Feb 10, 2000 at 8:43:00 am Re: how to implement wildcards? by Global Homes Webmaster on Feb 10, 2000 at 6:12:00 pm Re: how to implement wildcards? by Donovan Watts on Feb 10, 2000 at 8:25:00 pm Re: how to implement wildcards? by Men & Mice Support on Feb 10, 2000 at 8:40:00 pm