Re: [cobalt-users] Hosts, Domains, and aliases...

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kai Deecke wrote:

> I know all the answers now :)
> But these are all answers I have at once stage wanted to know :)
> When you finish, let me know where your site is.

My site will be where everyone looks for it now <smile>; at
"http://www.nobaloney.net/";.

Or maybe somewhere else <smile>.

> If we can simply
> submit a Q. and A. to you it'd be good. Hopefully in a while it'll be
> able to answer any question people have.

Start submitting them <smile>.  There are other places already running
where you can do that as well.

> In regards to the DNS. I have this running on one of my virtual sites. It's
> great. :)

What?  Wildcard DNS?  It works fine until it stops.  Read the "cricket"
book.

The problem is that the wildcard only matches domain names which don't
have any other records.  So if you've got an NS record or an MX record,
or a CNAME reocrd for anything the wildcard won't match the A record.

Or if you've got an A record or a CNAME record, it won't match the MX
record.

Or whatever.

Eventually everyone gets caught, and takes a long time to find what is
essentiall YOUR error.  I like my DNS zone files to be self-documenting.

Jeff
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