From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 26 20:33:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shorts.nts-online.net (dns2.nts-online.net [216.167.161.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E32337B422 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 20:33:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from clcont@gmx.net) Received: from contrec (dialup-lbb-0750.nts-online.net [216.167.135.114]) by shorts.nts-online.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with SMTP id f3R3Nen25107; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 22:23:40 -0500 Message-ID: <001401c15e98$3110d070$0101a8c0@contrec> From: "Christopher Leigh" To: "Jonathan Fortin" , References: <200104270326.NAA25642@tungsten.austclear.com.au> <000d01c0ceca$c7856e20$0200320a@node00> Subject: Re: *.example.net Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 22:33:47 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG yeah. that's what i wanted to do... use it with a webserver... anyone know how? anyone have a patch? :D ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Fortin" To: "Tony Landells" Cc: Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 10:33 PM Subject: Re: *.example.net > > The whole point of using wildcard DNS in my regard is if you got a > production website, you would point *.yourdomain.com to the IP address to > redirect impotent users to your homepage, then you can rewrite the HTTP_HOST > header with mod _rewrite making it seem like they didn't mistype it which is > actually good, but either then that I wouldnt see the use. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tony Landells" > To: "Christopher Leigh" > Cc: > Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 11:26 PM > Subject: Re: *.example.net > > > > I've never heard of anyone doing wildcard A records... > > > > Back in the days when people weren't very good at hiding hostnames > > in email they used to use wildcard MX records. They were generally > > considered a necessary evil, but people who had the skill were advised > > to hide the hostnames in email instead and abolish the wildcard MX. > > > > The reason I mention this is that the fundamental thing is the same-- > > you're trying to solve a problem that shouldn't exist. > > > > The whole point of DNS is to tell you the address for valid servers. > > If you return an address for any hostname in your domain, then people > > who have mis-typed a hostname will then have to wait for their data > > (HTTP, SMTP, telnet, whatever) connection to time out, rather than > > coming back immediately and telling them the hostname is wrong. > > > > Mind you, I can see some applications for this, but the majority of the > > advantages are spurious at best. And since the only place you should > > be advertising an RFC 1918 address like 192.168.1.1 is on your internal > > network, all you're going to do is annoy your users. > > > > Cheers, > > Tony > > -- > > Tony Landells > > Senior Network Engineer Ph: +61 3 9677 9319 > > Australian Clearing Services Pty Ltd Fax: +61 3 9677 9355 > > Level 4, Rialto North Tower > > 525 Collins Street > > Melbourne VIC 3000 > > Australia > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message