I third Scott's and Len's suggestion to drop the wild cards. When I first started working on DNS, I added the wildcard. Then, when a developer misspelled a server name in an application, every time some one from the web would access a certain part of an e-commerce web site, it sent them to our corporate web site.
CNAME can cause odd problems when not done exactly right. 07:06 04/15/02 John Tolmachoff IT Manager, Network Engineer 211 E. Imperial Hwy., Suite 106 Fullerton, CA� 92835 714-578-7999, ext. 104 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.reliancesoft.com � -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Len Conrad Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 12:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] DNS >I think DNS is (should be?) a science rather than an art, So drop the CNAMEs and wildcards, losing the unwelcome probabilities for artisistic ambiguities. Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND for NT4 & W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
