[dns-operations] about wildcard for CNAME

yhpeng at orange.fr yhpeng at orange.fr
Mon Jul 4 07:48:34 UTC 2016


Hi members,

I know wildcard can be setup for A,AAAA,MX etc.
But following this thread,
http://serverfault.com/questions/44618/is-a-wildcard-cname-dns-record-valid

wildcard seems should support CNAME too.

if I setup this:

*.example.com.  CNAME  wild.example.net.
*.example.com.  MX     mail.example.net.
www.example.com  A     192.168.1.100

When we query for "www.example.com A" or "www.example.com MX",  since 
there are CNAME exists,they may get conflicted, we won't get the correct 
result.

So we shouldn't setup wildcard for a CNAME. am I right?

Thanks.



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