Search Again: Re: how to implement wildcards? From: Global Homes Webmaster Date: Thursday, February 10, 2000 Time: 6:12:00 pm On 02/09/00 at 22:43, Donovan Watts wrote: > Chris, to be sure, can I have an A record vs. a CNAME record like: > > *.websurfhawaii.com. A frontier.websurfhawaii.com. That won't work because the right side of an A record must be an IP address, not a domain name. The purpose of an A record is to map a domain name to an address, so it doesn't make any sense to have a domain name there. If your intent is to alias a group of domains to another domain, you need a CNAME: *.websurfhawaii.com. CNAME frontier.websurfhawaii.com. Further, there must also be an A record for frontier.websurfhawaii.com. so that all of the domains covered by the CNAME will ultimately resolve to an IP address: frontier.websurfhawaii.com. A www.xxx.yyy.zzz Christopher Bort

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