Re: Wildcard Subdomain

Marcin Pikulski <[email protected]> Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:14:35 +0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups gmane.network.dns.bind9.dlz
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:46:56 +1100, Graham Weldon wrote:

> I have found that Wild-Carding works only on a direct subdomain level.
> As such, you will need to define a zone and records for the
> something.domain.com, to include the wildcard.
> 
> Domain: domain.com
> Subdomain: something
> 
> Domain: something.domain.com
> Subdomain: *
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> Cheers,
> Graham
> 

Hi Graham,

Those were my thoughts as well. Thanks for confirmation that there is no 
other way.

Are there any plans to make this work in DLZ zones?

Regards,
Marcin.

> 
> On 14/01/09 1:29 AM, "Marcin Pikulski" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:46:59 -0300, Felipe Neuwald wrote:
>> 
>>> Graham,
>>> 
>>> It works ok for me. * and @.
>>> 
>>> Felipe Neuwald.
>>> 
>>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> * alone works fine for me.
>> 
>> I have a problem with records like (assume zone name is domain.com):
>> 
>> *.something IN CNAME otherhost
>> 
>> When I ask about www.something.domain.com I receive: ** server can't
>> find www.something.domain.com.: NXDOMAIN
>> 
>> But when I ask about *.something.domain.com I receive proper answer.
>> 
>> In SQL queries generated by DNS MySQL driver I see only queries for:
>> www.something
>> *
>> 
>> It does not ask for *.something
>> 
>> The same DNS version, but with normal zone files handles this with no
>> problems.
>> BIND version is 9.5.1-P1
>> 
>> Any hints?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Marcin.
>> 
>> 
>>> 2008/7/1 Graham Weldon <[email protected]>:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> I've tried adding a wildcard subdomain to one of my zones with a
>>>> simple asterisk entry as an A record.
>>>> This doesn't seem to resolve correctly once entered.
>>>> 
>>>> Can Bind-DLZ handle wildcard subdomains? If so, what is the method
>>>> required to achieve this? Thanks!
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Graham Weldon
>>>> 
>>>> Fluid Lino
>>>> (02) 4927 5337
>>>> (0407) 017 293
>>>> [email protected]
>>>> www.fluidlino.com.au
>>>> 
>>>> 
>> 


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