I have a wildcard A record setup and pointed to my web server.. for
example:

*.bar.com. IN A 1.1.1.1

The web site on this server responds to any request and builds the
pages based on their URL (foo.bar.com, me.bar.com, etc.)

I can also setup CNAMEs to do the same.. for example:
*.foo.com. IN CNAME *.bar.com.

This gives different pages & URLs too (abc.foo.com, def.foo.com, etc.)

Is there a preferred way to manage that first wildcard? Why should I
*not* do this? I have read mixed reviews about its use. Really, could
I just have a regular A record (www.bar.com. IN A 1.1.1.1) and then
have the wildcard CNAME pointed to it? Same end result?

Thanks All.

Read inline please.
In news:1174492787.820175.131870@o5g2000hsb.googlegro ups.com,
AF <af.at.work@gmail.com> typed:
> I have a wildcard A record setup and pointed to my web server.. for
> example:
>
> *.bar.com. IN A 1.1.1.1
>
> The web site on this server responds to any request and builds the
> pages based on their URL (foo.bar.com, me.bar.com, etc.)
>
> I can also setup CNAMEs to do the same.. for example:
> *.foo.com. IN CNAME *.bar.com.
>
> This gives different pages & URLs too (abc.foo.com, def.foo.com, etc.)
>
> Is there a preferred way to manage that first wildcard? Why should I
> *not* do this? I have read mixed reviews about its use. Really, could
> I just have a regular A record (www.bar.com. IN A 1.1.1.1) and then
> have the wildcard CNAME pointed to it? Same end result?
>
> Thanks All.

Sure you can use Wildcard records with one bit of warning, if the wildcard
is in a zone that has its name in the DNS Suffix search list, the DNS Client
and nslookup appends the DNS suffix to all names not followed up with a
trailing "." ie. www.domain.com instead of www.domain.com., which when
appended with the suffix and is sent to the DNS server as
www.domain.com.DNSSuffixDomain.com hits the wildcard and resolves.

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