[Pdns-users] dig any and wildcard handling

Mon Sep 22 10:29:32 UTC 2003

Citat Thomas Kramer <mail at mailinglist.biz>:

> we do have some problems with powerDNS and itÃ
Â½s wildcard handling (or
> at least we believe so). We have two wildcard entries for every
> domain. One for type A and one for MX. The MX wildcard just makes
> *.domain.tld point to mail.domain.tld
>  
[snip]
>
> No Answer here... but if I ask specifically for A record I get what I
> expected:
> 
> server2:~# dig @ns1.tmkis.de 2003.tmkis.de A
> 
[snip]
> 
> Strange anyway that you cannot dig for MX....
> 
> server2:~# dig @ns1.tmkis.de 2003.tmkis.de MX
>
[snip] 
> 
> Any hints here?

Do you have an A record for mail.tmkis.de or just the wildcard for *.tmkis.de

I would expect most dns servers to dislike any MX record, thatnot is a reference
to an existing non-wildcard A record.

Regards,
Martin List-Petersen
martin at list-petersen dot se
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