RE: [cobalt-users] DNS Wildcards

["Babu P. Yogarajah" <bpy@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:21 03/10/00 -0600, you wrote:
>I'm working on this issue of the Wildcard DNS & followed the directions here
>but it didn't work. I believe the original thread was referring to a Raq3
>... I'm have a Raq2 & I assume this procedure should be the same ... is that
>correct? When I tried this it didn't work for me. The "$INCLUDE" line didn't
>go in ... I tried entering it manually but still no go.
>

For RAQ2
you have to manually(& carefully) edit the /etc/named/records
add the wild card entry in the form of
a * domain.name xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx xx

then update DNS by executing the following;
/usr/admserv/cgi-bin/.cobalt/dns/index.cgi

Best regards,
Babu P. Yogarajah
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>We did find a work around that seems to have worked "kinda" ... anytime I
>enter whatever.mydomain.com it will go to www.mydomain.com but I am using a
>script that redirects whatever.mydomain.com to www.mydomain.com/whatever but
>this is the part that isn't working. I can see the script is doing it's job
>because it creates a framed page to handle the redirection and when I view
>source the code is from the script. It just seems to not grab the subdomain
>name.
>
>I have tried two different scripts to achieve this and got the same results.
>I have used this script on many servers with great success so I think there
>is something I'm not getting set correctly.
>
>I saw that it was mentioned by Kelly that he's trying to do the same thing I
>am. I did try a direct email to him but haven't received a reply so I
>thought I'd throw it out here in the hopes someone has else has had success
>getting this to work.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Mike
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
>Cmopollux@xxxxxxx
>Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2000 10:01 AM
>To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] DNS Wildcards
>
>
>Hi,
>I don't think you can do it from the Web based GUI.  I just6 enabled this a
>few days a go and it worked great.  Here is how I did it-
>
>su root
>cd /etc/named
>ls
>touch pri.domain.com.include
>pico pri.domain.com.include
># Add this line in pri.domain.com.include
>*.domain.com.    in      cname   wherever.com.
># then restart DNS
>/etc/rc.d/init.d/named restart
>pico pri.domain.com
># make sure a line was added that looks like this-
># $INCLUDE pri.domain.com.include
># If you don't see that then go to Web Based GUI and click on "Control Panel
>> DNS Parameters" then click "Save Changes To DNS Server then Click "Save
>Changes" at the bottom of the main control Panel Screen.
>
>Then whatever.domain.com will go to wherever.com.
>Hope this helps,
>Chris
>