[Cialug] wild card domain tricks

[Tom Pohl]

I believe all you really need to do is something like this at the  
bottom of the file:

$ORIGIN testing.followers.net
*	A	<ipaddress>


On Oct 3, 2008, at 10:21 AM, Matthew Nuzum wrote:

> Hi, I manage a friend's dns and I'm fine doing simple things but now
> I've got to do something that I've never done before.
>
> He currently has *.followers.net go to a certain IP address. The zone
> file is called pri.followers.net and has in it (superflous stuff left
> out)
>
> followers.net.      A        69.60.125.97
> *       A       69.60.125.105
>
> We want to also add the ability for *.testing.followers.net to go to a
> different IP address. Do I need to create a different zone file for
> the testing.followers.net domain name and then create an entry like:
>
> *      A      <ip address>
>
> or can I simply add an entry to the existing zone file?
>
> For the record, the server uses BIND.
>
> -- 
> Matthew Nuzum
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