[Pdns-users] Basic PowerDNS Wildcard Question

[Tom Rossi]

Alan,

Sorry, I should have included scenario 4 which also does not work:

SCENARIO 4

*.example.com CNAME host.anotherdomain.com
example.com A 192.168.0.1

This will resolve "anything.example.com" but will NOT resolve "example.com"

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Alan Hodgson <ahodgson at simkin.ca> wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 June 2008, "Tom Rossi" <tom at themolehill.com> 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
>
> You can't put a CNAME on the domain itself. CNAME cannot co-exist with any
> other record, including SOA or NS records, and cannot have sub-records.
> It's just a really big no-no in DNS.
>
> --
> Alan
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