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Re: DNS Wildcards Myth #1

2004-08-11 06:43:02

DNS wildcard entries might be completely worthless unless you have web hosting clients that would like to easily use .htaccess to handle subdomain breakdown of their site content.

"web hosting clients" are almost universally ignorant of anything DNS except the most common rudiments, if those. And I bet most web hosting company techies are only marginally better informed.

While "*" labels work perfectly well, they are so often misunderstood and misapplied, to the point of working against intentions, if not actually breaking a zone, that they should be avoided, in general. Same applies to CNAMEs. And when used, "*" labels and CNAMEs should be tested carefully.

Len


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