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a1z
09-03-2001, 02:13 AM
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How to enable wildcards on DNS?

Thank you
a1z

Jedito
09-03-2001, 02:43 AM
* 14400 A yoursiteip

I think that should be work

a1z
09-03-2001, 06:21 AM
Hi Jedito,

can you give me more detail on this setting

Thanx you for you help Jedito
a1z

Chicken
09-03-2001, 12:21 PM
Normally, you put something like:

www A 123.123.123.123

put:

* A 123.123.123.123

a1z
09-03-2001, 11:09 PM
Thanx Chicken, that nice and smart example.

a1 z:D

RunOfTheMill
09-03-2001, 11:10 PM
anybody wana tell me what wildcards are?

(im in that kinda mood, where i just gotta know everything:))

Chicken
09-04-2001, 03:26 AM
Wildcard would be used so that...

anything.yourdomain.com

-resolves to an IP for various reasons. You could type in...

billy.yourdomain.com
suzy.yourdomain.com
chicken.yourdomain.com

-and all requests are sent to the IP. Next you are going to ask, "What's the point of that?" Well, once it hits the IP, it could be further redirected via a script (a good way for a host to offer free unlimited subdomains), or for other reasons such as eliminating the need to set up mail.yourdomain.com, ftp.yourdomain.com, etc. for clients used to using this, if these services are all being run on the same machine. I guess it saves people when they mistype ww.yourdomain.com or wwe.yourdomain.com, etc. too heh.