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Xref: sserve comp.mail.sendmail:11475 comp.os.386bsd.questions:9477 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au!aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!ruhr.de!zappa.Ruhr.DE!zappa.Ruhr.DE!not-for-mail From: oskar@zappa.Ruhr.DE (Jan-Hinrich Fessel) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: wildcard MX records Date: 18 Mar 1994 16:10:37 +0100 Organization: /etc/organization Lines: 39 Message-ID: <2mcg9d$68s@zappa.Ruhr.DE> References: <lwitte.763845439@maui> <2m7v0v$4g5@bosnia.pop.psu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: zappa.ruhr.de Keywords: sendmail,mx records In article <2m7v0v$4g5@bosnia.pop.psu.edu>, David Barr <barr@pop.psu.edu> wrote: >Wildcard MX's are useful mostly for non IP-connected sites. A >common mistake is thinking that a wildcard MX for a zone will >apply to all hosts in the zone. A wildcard MX will apply only to >names in the zone which aren't listed in the DNS at all. e.g. > >podunk.edu. in ns ns1 > in ns ns2 >mary in a 1.2.3.4 >*.podunk.edu. in mx 5 mail So far, so good. I am running NetBSD-current 12Mar94. While this works fine for me, I cannot wildcard domains not connected dircetly to my nameserver/domain. I have a local Network connected to the outside via UUCP for now. So I cannot update my local Nameserver with the Class 1 domains. For now I must lookup all names outside of my domain via a mailertable lookup (sendmail 8.6.5) instead of using plain simple canonicalization via DNS. I have an entry like this : *. IN MX 0 uugate this does not resolve at all. The next entry is also not working: *.de. IN MX 0 uugate but this one is ok when looking for hosts in xxx.de, e.g. yy.xxx.de is delivered through uugate: *.xxx.de. IN MX 0 uugate Is this a fault or a feature of the DNS in NetBSD? Is it a gerneral happening? From the docs, it is looks like I should be able to wildcard mx for any domain. Cheers Oskar