Search Again: Re: Wildcard errors (Was: Chris''s export script) From: Men & Mice Support Date: Monday, April 22, 2002 Time: 3:06:02 pm Tell us a real-world example, so we can see what you mean. Are both servers running on Mac OS X? ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice support@menandmice.com Making DNS Easy At 3:01 PM +0100 4/22/02, Paul Willis wrote: >Maybe spoke a bit too soon. I seem to have an odd problem with >wildcards on my secondary QDNS/BIND on the OS X machine. > >In my zone file I have... > >domain.com A 123.123.123.123 >*.domain.com CNAME domain.com > >Testing the primary and secondary with DNS Expert Pro I find that... > >The primary works fine with any wildcard just as you would expect. > >The secondary also works fine if I type in any old rubbish before >the .domain.com, ie: qwerty.domain.com resolves to the server BUT >any previously used wildcard like www.domain.com doesn't work. > >As mentioned below I used the Add Slave Server script to create >these secondary records. > >Is there a bug here? > >Paul > > >>Chris >> >>Cheers for this I successfully moved our secondary DNS for 280 >>zones over to QDNS/BIND on OS X last night using the Add Slave >>Server script. >> >>Paul >> >>>We included such a script with QuickDNS Manager 3.5 and later. >>>It's called Add Slave Server. Just connect to your master server, >>>connect to your new slave server, and run the script. >>> >>>If your configuration is more complicated than that and you need >>>to absolutely preserver the setup you have on your old Mac OS 9 >>>server, use the scripts Export Server Configuration and Import >>>Server Configuration, which (again) you'll find included with >>>QuickDNS Manager. Note, however, that these two scripts won't work >>>with QuickDNS Manager running on Mac OS X 10.1 or later. >>> >>>>I am trying to move my secondary over from OS 9 to OS X but I >>>>can't see any easy way to import all my zone data. The only >>>>option I can see is to input each one individually with the 'Add >>>>a Slave Zone...' option in QDNS Manager. Not something I relish >>>>with 280 zones.

Messages In This Thread: Wildcard errors (Was: Chris''s export script) by Paul Willis on Apr 22, 2002 at 7:03:05 am Re: Wildcard errors (Was: Chris''s export script) by Men & Mice Support on Apr 22, 2002 at 3:06:02 pm Re: Wildcard errors (Was: Chris''s export script) by Paul Willis on Apr 23, 2002 at 5:13:46 am Re: Wildcard errors (Was: Chris''s export script) by Paul Willis on Apr 23, 2002 at 6:28:59 am Re: Wildcard errors (Was: Chris''s export script) by Men & Mice Support on Apr 23, 2002 at 1:29:51 pm Re: Wildcard errors (Was: Chris''s export script) by Paul Willis on Apr 24, 2002 at 4:50:37 am Re: Wildcard errors (Was: Chris''s export script) by Paul Willis on Apr 24, 2002 at 10:16:17 am Re: Wildcard errors (Was: Chris''s export script) by Men & Mice Support on Apr 24, 2002 at 1:09:49 pm Re: Wildcard errors (Was: Chris''s export script) by Paul Willis on Apr 25, 2002 at 5:04:45 am Re: Wildcard errors (Was: Chris''s export script) by Men & Mice Support on Apr 26, 2002 at 4:13:06 pm