Wildcard DNS?

[Eaton J. Blumenstein]

does anyone know if Microsoft DNS for windows 2000 does Wildcard dns.

thanks
eaton

 

[Herb Martin]

Do I have this correct:

Main Zone
subzone named *
Blank record (same as parent) with IP address
???

 

[Ace Fekay [MVP]]

In

Do I have this correct:

Main Zone
subzone named *
Blank record (same as parent) with IP address
???

That's about it. Just manually create the blank record with the IP.

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Ace

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Ace Fekay, MCSE 2000, MCSE+I, MCSA, MCT, MVP
Microsoft Windows MVP - Active Directory

 

[Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]]

In

Do I have this correct:

Main Zone
subzone named *
Blank record (same as parent) with IP address
???

That is it, you will also notice that if you have a secondary the secondary
will copy it as an "A" record with the wildcard "*" name.
I guess you can call this one a "bug" in MSDNS if you want, I cannot
disagree with that. But, it works and does allow you to use wildcard
records.
However, I do believe that attempting to use wildcards in an AD zone could
cause some real problems, I have found them very useful in other hosted DNS
zones.