Sifrael,

As far as I know, wildcard enties are legal for MX records only in bind 4.9x
and 8.x dns specs, e.g.:

*.domain.com IN MX 10 mailhost.domain.com.

This entry would point all sub-domains to mailhost.domain.com, e.g.
marketing.domain.com
production.domain.com
sales.domain.com

We use MetaInfo DNS http://www.metainfo.com which implements Bind 8.x on
Windows NT.

Did any other list member try if Microsoft NT dns accepts this notation?

However, the recommendation is to use straight A-records for mail hosts.
Some SMTP servers are unable to send mail to CNAME'd hosts, especially if
the CNAME's are chained, e.g.
CNAME mailhost.domain.com --> CNAME mail.provider.com --> CNAME
smtp.sample.net and so on. Lyris list server is one well-known example
featuring this disability.

Regards, Marius

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Betreff: [IMail Forum] OT: *.domain.com ?

Hello,

i wonder if it is possible to configure a wildcard CNAME record for a
Domainname. Not a MX-Record, but something that allows me to use:

- www.domain.com
- www1.domain.com
- www100000.domain.com
- whatever.domain.com

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