Search Again: Re: Wildcard and CNAME mixups? From: Men & Mice Support Date: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 Time: 12:11:27 am At 11:11 PM -0700 4/17/00, Noah Price wrote: >This is a portion of the DNS from my domain. Periodically, >"www.theprices.net" (which should be sent to 209.237.0.209) seems to get >sent to the "*.theprices.net" A record, 209.133.76.41. If I just use >"theprices.net" it goes properly to 209.237.0.209. > > theprices.net. 7200 A 209.237.0.209 > *.theprices.net. 7200 A 209.133.76.41 > files.theprices.net. 7200 A 209.237.0.209 > www2.theprices.net. 7200 A 209.133.76.41 > www.theprices.net. 7200 CNAME theprices.net. > >Is there something about the order or use of "*" or CNAME records that's >causing this? I remember a bug regarding use of * in a CNAME record, but >didn't think it applied to A records. My primary DNS is QDNS, but my ISP's >secondary is some version of BIND (and gives the records in a somewhat >different order). > >I know it looks a bit odd -- I'm getting ready to shift from one machine to >another as my web server, but it all looks like it should work... How have you determined that www.theprices.net occasionally shifts to .41? Is it that you see hits in the log on .41? Is it possible that someone has bookmarked a page on in the www2 domain? I queried all 5 servers authoritative for the domain. I queried for A records named www.theprices.net. They all gave back the same answer: www.theprices.net. CNAME theprices.net. theprices.net. A 209.237.0.209 ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton cbuxton@menandmice.com Men & Mice http://www.menandmice.com Makers of: QuickDNS Pro

Messages In This Thread: Wildcard and CNAME mixups? by Noah Price on Apr 17, 2000 at 11:15:07 pm Re: Wildcard and CNAME mixups? by Men & Mice Support on Apr 18, 2000 at 12:11:27 am Re: Wildcard and CNAME mixups? by Noah Price on Apr 19, 2000 at 8:48:50 am