Re: [cobalt-developers] how do you setup a wildcard on the DNS?

["Michael" <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff,

Do you mean that if you have *.yourdomain.com as an A-record then
pop.yourdomain.com will no longer work?

Michael


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Lasman" <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] how do you setup a wildcard on the DNS?


> Michael wrote:
>
> > You need to add the record manually since the GUI does not allow
> > *.yourname.com.  So, just add an A-record for * pointing to the correct
> > ip-address.
>
> If you're going to do this you should be aware that wildcards in DNS do
> NOT work for any domain, subdomain or machine name for which there's
> already a record.
>
> For example, if you've got a record for "pop.yourdomain.com", then "*"
> will NOT work for pop.yourdomain.com.
>
> Jeff
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