> > 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. -- f.a.n.finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://dotat.at/ CULLERCOATS: OCCASIONALLY SEVERE GALE FORCE TO STORM IN ALL AREAS EXCEPT DOVER AND WIGHT ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY.
