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Re: A list of (mostly) technical consequences of TLD wildcards

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rik van Riel)
Sat Sep 27 11:49:37 2003

Date:	Sat, 27 Sep 2003 11:49:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <g3ad8q44rp.fsf@sa.vix.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Paul Vixie wrote:

> What this means is, there is no such thing as a wildcard CNAME.

Funny...

$ host -t cname \*.TD
*.TD is an alias for www.nic.TD.


Rik
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