How do I put my wildcard dns entry AFTER my defined ones
How do I reverse the order so that my catchall/wildcard subdomain gets seen last or directly edit the zone file?
Currently if I define a wildcard dns entry it puts it in ascii order so the wildcard will always be directed first rather than last.
e.g.
A records for example.com
- -> 192.168.1.1
demo -> 192.168.1.2
mail -> 192.168.1.3
ping demo.example.com will route to 192.168.1.1 not 192.168.1.2 because '*' is before 'd' and 'm' in ascii and is therefore put into the zone file in that order! This is a big problem for things like mail but is irritating for the other subdomains.
Note: the above is an example I do not own example.com!
2 Replies
mjones
Linode Staff
A wildcard subdomain will only direct traffic for a subdomain that isn't otherwise defined, so it should work as you expect even if it's listed first in the zone.
If you're seeing different behavior could you open a ticket so myself or another member of the support team can look further into it?
