>[1] For the RFC lawyers, not of any actual operational value: There
>are some RFCs that specify some of this behaviour, I believe, in the
>context of zone transfers rather than DNS queries but those RFCs
>really just document the behaviour of that one authoritative server,
>and most people consider them a mistake worth forgetting as far as
>being a Standard with a capital S is concerned, rather than just
>documentation of current practice with that one server.

Unfortunately, there seems to be a critical mass of people in the DNS
part of the IETF that believe otherwise, that the only problem with
wildcards is that there are servers that don't do exactly what BIND
does, and the solution is to fix them so they do.

R's,
John

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