Re: [cobalt-users] catchall for (sub) domain on a RAQ4

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Martin wrote:

> Well, now that you mention it, domain.com uses a different DNS server (that
> is, NOT the DNS server on the Cobalt RAQ itself) than anotherdomain.com.
> For domain.com, I use *.domain.com in the DNS (A-record) to forward to the
> Cobalt RAQ ip. This works just fine, but from then on it messes up, because
> instead of forwarding to the virtual host for domain.com, it forwards to the
> first virtual host for that ip in the httpd.conf file list. I think this has
> to do with Apache (and its ServerAlias directive) not knowing what to do
> with the request for domain.com. I did, like I mentioned before, manually
> add *.domain.com to the virtual host entry for domain.com, but without
> success. Any idea why?

Can you show us the contents of the virtual site container for
domain.com?

> As for anotherdomain.com, it uses the DNS server on the Cobalt RAQ itself.
> However, adding an A-record  *.anotherdomain.com like somebody suggested,
> does NOT work for me, because the cobalt administration does not let me
> enter a '*' in the Host Name input field. Does anybody have a solution to
> this problem? (maybe adding it manually?)

We don't use the Cobalt DNS setup to set up our master DNS zones,
because of "minor annoyances" such as this one.

Jeff
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