[dns-operations] Strange wildcard in ".tm"

[Peter Koch]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 10:59:59AM +0200, Andrzej Bartosiewicz wrote:
> Are you discontented because wildcards doesn't work under .tm or because
> they have wildcards? ;)

well, this one is "wild" in its own sense:

; <<>> DiG 9.4.0a6 <<>> +norec @a.nic.tm. \*.tm. any
; (1 server found)
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 33608
;; flags: qr; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;*.tm.                          IN      ANY

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
*.tm.                   86400   IN      NS      ns1c.nic.ac.
*.tm.                   86400   IN      NS      ns2c.nic.ac.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1c.nic.ac.            3600    IN      A       216.117.170.115
ns2c.nic.ac.            3600    IN      A       64.251.31.233

;; Query time: 126 msec
;; SERVER: 64.251.31.180#53(64.251.31.180)
;; WHEN: Thu Jul 19 11:12:11 2007
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 98

Glad to learn that all this discussion around RFC 4592 wasn't a waste of time ..

-Peter