[Pdns-users] Basic PowerDNS Wildcard Question

[bert hubert]

Tom,

Before delving deeply in your excellent description below, are you testing
with 2.9.21?

It is different than 2.9.20 in CNAME handling.

	Bert

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 10:05:55PM -0400, Tom Rossi wrote:
> I'm getting PowerDNS up and running and so far really like it.  I'm
> having a problem though with creating a record to resolve the domain
> by itself.  For example, I would like a CNAME or A record for the
> domain by itself so that "example.com" resolves to an IP address.
> This shouldn't be a problem, but when I introduce a wildcard, I can't
> get it to work.  I'm thinking I am missing something basic?  Please
> take a look:
> 
> I can't get any of these scenarios to work:
> 
> SCENARIO 1:
> 
> *.example.com CNAME host.anotherdomain.com
> 
> This will resolve "anything.example.com" but will NOT resolve "example.com"
> 
> SCENARIO 2:
> 
> *.example.com CNAME host.anotherdomain.com
> example.com CNAME host.anotherdomain.com
> 
> This will resolve "anything.example.com" but will NOT resolve "example.com"
> 
> 
> SCENARIO 3:
> 
> example.com CNAME host.anotherdomain.com
> This will NOT resolve "anything.example.com" but will resolve "example.com"
> 
> I appreciate any help!
> 
> Thanks,
> Tom
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