DNS Wildcarding

["William J. DuBrul" <bill@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hi,

 

This thread came up "RE: Release 2002 and Proxy rewrite" when I was searching for DNS wildcarding or wild card for Microsoft Windows 2000 server. 

 

I just wanted you all to know I did find an easy solution.

 

I have a main web site that we should call yyy.com

 

I'm trying to have any name with xxx.yyy.com resolve to the same address so I don't have to put a million entries in for all my different facilities.

 

On my windows 2000 DNS servers I went to my dns entry for yyy.com and "right clicked" on it.  I added a "new domain".

 

When asked for the new domain name I put a "*" in the blank.

 

I then put a "A" (Alias) record in that domain that pointed to yyy.com.

 

Any prefix to yyy.com now works.  Including the actual string "xxx.yyy.com" and even "xxx.xxx.yyy.com"

 

I then reloaded the zone by "right clicking" on the zone yyy.com and clicking "reload"

 

The domain "*" that I added was then converted to a regular A record.

 

Clearly this is the way and Alias is supposed to be done - but the documentation on the Microsoft site and books is scarce and I hope this helps.

 

Bill