On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote:
> Aryeh Gregor wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 6:38 AM, Roan Kattouw <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Normal shell users can execute all but one of the steps required for
>>> wiki creation: root access is needed to create the DNS entry for the
>>> new subdomain.
>>
>> Why doesn't Wikimedia just set up a wildcard domain for
>> *.wikipedia.org?  They all go to the same IP address anyway, right?
>> Just have the application (maybe Squid) return a 404 if the project
>> doesn't exist.
>
> It does send an error listing a project index, if you try to use a
> non-existant project.

It does?  I get a DNS error:

http://phoonzang.wikipedia.org/

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