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[kwilson]

I'm in the process of setting up a domain that will need a wildcard in the fourth-level position, like so:

*.demo.example.com

This is for demo'ing client web sites I'm working on without having to set up a DNS record manually for each one. I am currently doing this on another DNS service but wish to move the zone over here.

I can create a wildcard CNAME in the third-level position (ie, *.example.com) but trying to do the above results in a "Invalid hostname '*.demo'" error.

Creating CNAME records in this format works otherwise, so it's got something to do with the wildcard. I have a record set up like foo.bar.example.com, with the CNAME being "foo.bar" and it works fine.

Thanks.

[yejun]

To server *.demo.example.com, you need to create DNAME or NS recorder for demo.example.com.

[kwilson]

Is that something specific to the Linode DNS manager that requires that? In BIND I can just do something like:

*.demo IN A 10.42.1.12

I've done similar in other DNS management tools too, so I assumed it would work here as well.