[Pdns-users] Basic PowerDNS Wildcard Question

[Tom Rossi]

Thanks for looking at this for me!  I am on version 2.9.21...

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 1:10 AM, bert hubert <bert.hubert at netherlabs.nl> wrote:
> 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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