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From: skl@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (Sam Lam)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Subject: Wildcard *A* (not MX) RR
Summary: Is this actually legal?
Message-ID: <1991Mar24.145839.7296@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 24 Mar 91 14:58:39 GMT
Organization: Wimsey Associates, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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After spending a few hours at a customer's site tracking down a
mysterious IP loopback problem, I just have to ask the net this:

    What do you think about the use of wildcard *A* RR's?

To put it another way, what are the pros and cons for putting
a line like

    *.sub.domain       IN A    www.xxx.yyy.zzz

in your zone's master file?

Thanks in advance for your input.

...Sam
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<skl@wimsey.bc.ca>