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

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Sat Sep 27 12:12:00 2003

To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Date: 27 Sep 2003 16:11:23 +0000
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.55L.0309271148380.27958@imladris.surriel.com>
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> > 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.

just because bind does it doesn't make it a standard.
-- 
Paul Vixie

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