When an unqualified name (a name without a terminating dot) is encountered in a zone file, BIND9 appends the origin value ($ORIGIN
directive) to it.
Example:
ns.domain.tld. IN A SERVER_IP
The above line is equivalent to:
$ORIGIN domain.tld.
ns IN A SERVER_IP
I was wondering if it works for wildwards as well. For example, is this:
*.domain.tld. IN A SERVER_IP
equivalent to
$ORIGIN domain.tld.
* IN A SERVER_IP
?