[Pdns-users] Wildcard-Problem in PDNS 2.9.22

[Maik Zumstrull]

On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 09:13:21 +0200
Christian Kuehn <christian.kuehn at mcs.de> wrote:

> Hi Everybody,
> 
> I found this problem:
> 
> My authoritative servers under 2.9.22 cannot handle wildcard-records!

> Whats wrong???

You misunderstood what wildcard records do.

They create virtual records for names that don't exist.
In your example, www.johan-carl-christian.de exists – it has an A
record – so wildcards won't touch it. Check section 4.3.3. here,
especially the example given near the end (page 26):
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1034

> Looks like a bug in PDNS......

No.