[dns-operations] *.cn A wildcard

[Chris Thompson]

On Oct 26 2009, Francisco Arias wrote:

>If you try an IDN there seems to be expansion
[...]

Yes - nice call.

The rule seems to be that the second level component has to start "xn--"
for wildcard expansion to occur. Valid Punycode after that is not required.

And of course they have failed to apply this hack to ns.cernet.net.

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