Wildcard in HOSTS file?

[Grahammer]

Is it possible to use wildcards to redirect a domain to a specific IP
address?

ie:

192.168.0.10 mydomain.com
192.168.0.10 www.mydomain.com
192.168.0.10 mail.mydomain.com
192.168.0.10 ftp.mydomain.com
192.168.0.10 dev.mydomain.com
192.168.0.10 dns.mydomain.com
192.168.0.10 another.mydomain.com


is replaced by

192.168.0.10 *.mydomain.com


....if not, is there something else that can be done to achieve the same
results?

 

[Doug Sherman [MVP]]

Hosts files do not support wildcards. DNS does:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;193844

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

 

[Lerner]

Unfortunately we don't host DNS for the domain...

We're trying to block access to any subdomain of a specific domain.

Thanks!

 

[DevilsPGD]

Unfortunately we don't host DNS for the domain...

We're trying to block access to any subdomain of a specific domain.

If you run your own DNS (not the DNS record for that domain, just your
own DNS server which your customers use), create a zone for mydomain.com