Re: Wildcards not supported in & records?

if you're going to delegata *, why not delegate one level higher and
not have to do that?

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 10:12, David Hubbard
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Was trying to delegate the first of several /24's worth
> of in-addr.arpa records to a customer's name servers,
> some of which are present on said /24 and some not, so
> I did the following (first three octets and the domain
> name changed obviously):
>
> &*.3.2.1.in-addr.arpa:1.2.3.4:ns1.customerdns.com:3600
> &*.3.2.1.in-addr.arpa:3.4.5.32:ns2.customerdns.com:3600
> &*.3.2.1.in-addr.arpa:3.4.5.31:ns1.customerdns.net:3600
> &*.3.2.1.in-addr.arpa:1.2.3.254:ns2.customerdns.net:3600
>
> Did not get successful ptr lookups after putting that in
> place, just get an SOA response from our dns showing our
> dns. =C2=A0I changed the records to test just one IP:
>
> &50.3.2.1.in-addr.arpa:1.2.3.4:ns1.customerdns.com:3600
> &50.3.2.1.in-addr.arpa:3.4.5.32:ns2.customerdns.com:3600
> &50.3.2.1.in-addr.arpa:3.4.5.31:ns1.customerdns.net:3600
> &50.3.2.1.in-addr.arpa:1.2.3.254:ns2.customerdns.net:3600
>
> Now it's happy. =C2=A0Querying for 50.3.2.1.in-addr.arpa on
> my tinydns gives back four NS authority records of the
> customer's DNS servers. =C2=A0If I do a straight root lookup
> of that ptr I get proper traversal to customer's dns and
> a correct response.
>
> So, I can of course write a little script to generate
> the thousand or so lines of records I'll need, but was
> hoping I could get away with four like you can with A
> records?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>