> > And I assume that *.*.3 would also be viable to accept rules for all
> > 3.x.x versions, or more to the point, *.*.2 could be used within SARE
> > to flag rules that apply to all 2.xx versions that predate 3.0.0.
>
> Hold on -- something's just occurred to me from the SPF development;
> this won't be possible, because BIND doesn't support bar.*.foo wildcards
> (ie. wildcards in a non-lowest-level record.)
>
> We may have to have a way to explicitly mark wildcards.  in other
> words, do lookups like
>
>     1.0.3.updates.spamassassin.org
>     star.0.3.updates.spamassassin.org
>     star.3.updates.spamassassin.org
>     star.updates.spamassassin.org       (possibly N/A)

If you create a record *.3.updates.spamassassin.org it will match any
subdomain which does not have any records of its own, including
subsubdomains and deeper. This is probably enough for SpamAssassin's
purposes.

Tony.
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