WAM setup

[Travis Spence <Travis.Spence@xxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

We in the library are being told by our network people that there is a problem with the way our servers are named and this will prohibit us from setting up the WAM that
will eliminate the need for our patrons to configure their browsers for the proxy serve.

The issuse is this:

The directions state that the DNS must be set up to accept wildcards.  Our library (III) server is named library.pima.edu.  Our other web server is named
www.library.pima.edu.  I'm being told that *.library.pima.edu will not work.  It is the networking staff's contention that if we configure the DNS to
*.library.pima.edu, we will no long be able to access the server named www.library.pima.edu because the DNS will return the primary library server address for it.

That doesn't make sense to me.  Wouldn't *.library.pima.edu include www.library.pima.edu?  Of course, what I know about DNS wouldn't fill a thimble but this is
counter-intuitive.

Has anyone else overcome a situation like this?

Thanks.

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Travis Spence
Library Specialist
Pima Community College
Tucson, AZ