Re: [IMail Forum] OT MS DNS & wildcards

[Matrosity Tech Support]

this worked perfectlt, thanks! Jeff Lesperance wrote: I agree - leaving the host name blank doesn't work, not at the top level anyhow - I found a method that does work, in Win2k DNS: * Right-Click on the domain that you want to add a wildcard to - choose to add a "New Domain..." - Type * as the new domain name * You'll now have a new (sub)domain underneath the domain zone, that looks like a folder named * - Right-Click on the * folder, and choose "New Host..." - Leave the Name blank, and put in the IP address that you want the wildcard to resolve to - you'll get an error that (same as parent folder) is not valid - you can just say yes to this and it should work now. The end result is a record added to the .dns zone file that looks like: * A yourdomain.com Wednesday, February 9, 2005, 10:31:06 AM, you wrote: I tried the leaving the host name blank with no success. John Tolmachoff (Lists) wrote: When creating a new A record, leave the host name blank. You can also open the .dns file with Notepad. John Tolmachoff Engineer/Consultant/Owner eServices For You -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:IMail_Forum- [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Matrosity Tech Support Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 7:04 AM To: IMail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com Subject: [IMail Forum] OT MS DNS & wildcards Hi All, Sorry to ask this but we've never needed to use wildcards in DNS before but a new client requires it. How is this done with MS DNS? Thanks, Bill To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/