Re: DNS wildcard via add-host or add-alias?

Matthew Dempsky <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.djbdns
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Tony Primerano
<[email protected]> wrote:
> ./add-host *.foo.com 1.1.1.1

You probably actually want to use './add-alias', unless you want
1.1.1.1.in-addr.arpa to point back to \052.foo.com.

> places the following in /service/tinydns/root/data
> =\052.foo.com:1.1.1.1:86400
>
> Is that correct or should I really see
> =*.foo.com:1.1.1.1:86400

They're equivalent.  tinydns-data checks for the * label after octal decoding.
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