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Create 301 Redirection in Amazon Route 53 for Wildcard Subdomains

My domain name hosted on Route 53 DNS. Amazon has a guide to do 301 redirection for www. To naked domain by point www. version to a S3 static website with 301 setted up. My question is, how can I ...
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Is a wildcard DNS record bad practice?

I asked my hoster to add three subdomains all pointing to the IP of the A record. It seems he simply added a wildcard DNS record because any random subdomain resolves to my IP now. This is OK for me ...
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Multiple wildcard dns entries

Are there any problems with having multiple wildcard dns entries for a domain? Eg: CNAME *.a.example.com 1.1.1.1 CNAME *.b.example.com 2.2.2.2 CNAME *.example.com 3.3.3.3 I have this set ...
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bulk parking domain in apache server

how can I config apache server for bulk parking domains. I mean allow users to set DNS of server for their domains and then it show content that I set for parked domains without need of additional ...
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possible wildcard cname setup [closed]

I'm trying to do the following: get a cname setup so that *.subdomain.domain.com points to anotherdomain.com. Then in the anotherdomain.com DNS, I want to look for things like ...
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Automatic subdomain wildcard for DHCP-DDNS additions (windows server)

We're running a Windows Server 2008 AD serving as DHCP and DNS for more than 300 PC. When a PC desktop with the name "harry" connects to the network, the DHCP server gives it a lease, and adds ...
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DNS Wildcard (linux)

Setup: A VLAN without internetaccess. When a user connects his/her computer with cable and tries to surf, the traffic will be directed to internal website. How can I setup a DNS Wildcard so all ...
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Can a DNS wildcard only be the leftmost part of a record?

I'm using TinyDNS, and have successfully used wildcard records of the form: +*.<domain>:<ip> (+ for A records.) Can I also use: +development.*.<domain>:<ip> ? My ...
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Wildcard for A and MX records possible?

I'm building an app where each customer can have their own subdomain. For this example, he setup his subdomain to be: whisky I created a wildcard subdomain in my DNS: *.myapp.com A 123.123.123.123 ...
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Configure DNS server to return same IP for all domains

I would like to configure a nameserver that will return the same IP address ("A" record) for any arbitrary host name. For example: example.com subdomain.example.com someotherdomain.com ...
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Setup a DNS wilcard and MX record in the same zone

I'd like to know how to configure my DNS to be able to use a wildcard for my domain and an MX record together. Here is what I've done: @ IN SOA dns98.ovh.net. tech.ovh.net. (2012052100 86400 3600 ...
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Wildcard dns, non-existent subdomains point to main website

Before I start I'd like to say that I've already read relevant questions here on serverfault but I couldn't find a solution. Here's my problem. I'm using a third party DNS and I've added a wildcard A ...
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Wildcard 'A' record overriding CNAME record

I have a Wildcard * A record for self-registration of subdomains by users on our web app. All works fine. I now need to set up an alias for support.mydomain.com to point to mydomain.freshdesk.com. ...
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CNAME based php hosting

CNAME based php hostingI have an application that lets users get a *.onemobi.net account (ex. bob.onemobi.net). Now what I would like to do is give the user the option of being able to use their own ...
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Catch-all Domains Windows DNS

We are trying to set up Windows DNS for our nameservers ns1.sitegen.co and ns2.sitegen.co. Is is possible to catchall domain names using those nameservers in Windows DNS instead of creating ...
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Trying to make it so on my mac (or entire local network) any *.dev domains point to an IP [closed]

I'm trying to move my development stuff over to a small local Debian based server running ispconfig, and need to basically make it so that *.dev is routed to a specific IP. So for example I went to ...
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How do I set my MX records such that mail to my domain goes one place, and mail to all subdomains goes elsewhere?

I have a domain name example.com, for which I'd like mail to be routed to different servers depending on the circumstances. Mail sent to an @example.com address should go to the server ...
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Godaddy - How do I set a catchall CNAME?

I have Ape installed in /APE_Server. I'm configuring APE and the tutorial says: Create a subdomain pointing to the server where APE is installed. Create a Catch-All CNAME redirecting all requests ...
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Wildcard CNAME with GoDaddy DNS Manager

I'm having some issues with GoDaddy DNS that I thought I'd maybe share with you all before moving to another provider. I have an application that uses subdomains for users and is hosted on ...
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Wildcard .dev URLs on virtual machine (windows <> Ubuntu)

The past few days I'm exploring how to setup a webserver (personal usage).. I'm a programmer not a sysadmin, so it's a lot trial and error for me. What I have so far: VM Workstation Host: Windows ...
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CNAME help - wildcard DNS for SaaS

I am trying to figure out how to allow my users to use a CNAME for their unique wildcard domain. (user1.wlapi.com), etc I read here: ...
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Can DNS host records be setup to create wildcard sub-subdomains

Is it possible to create a wildcard host record for a sub-subdomain ie *.foo.example.com?
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Wildcard dns as subdomain in localhost using apache

i am developing a web application in Zend Framework running in apache server (xampp). The site can actually be accessed by http://localhost/sitename . It is present in c:/xampp/htdocs/sitename/ I ...
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Wildcard DNS setting in Windows Server 2008 R2 DNS Server not working

We've got a windows server 2008 R2 DNS server that we are trying to setup a wildcard DNS entry in. So we want proxy.domain.com and *.proxy.domain.com to go to the same IP. Right now, it seems as if ...
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Tomcat, wildcard subdomains?

Is this possible with Tomcat?
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Router config for wildcard subdomains on internal network

I'm trying to setup internal wildcard subdomains to point at my Apache vhost config (which works well). The issue is that Windows hosts files can't support wildcard subdomain, so I'm hoping that my ...
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Catch-all DNS record

Intro Our users have the ability to buy a domain (eg: user1.com) and make it point to out website, (eg: example.com), by simply pointing user1.com to ns1/ns2.example.com . Issue So far everything's ...
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Wild Card DNS setup problems

this is my firast time with dedicated servers and im having problem setting up a wildcard sub-domain. I previously tried * /-----/ 14400 /-----/ IN /-----/ A /-----/ (serverip) waited 30 hours ...
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Using wildcard domains to serve images without http blocking

I read that browsers sometimes block waiting for multiple images from the same host, and I'm trying to do everything I can to speed up page load times. One caveat: I need to serve files over HTTPS. ...
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Wildcard DNS setting for another server

My domain is on one server and I wanted to put wildcard DNS settings for another server. Basically I have two servers and I want all the wildcard to go on second server, how can I do that?
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1 Domain, 2 Servers and 2 Applications

I have a site like twitter.com on server one and on server two I have a forum, which path is like domain.com/forum. On server one I wanted to implement wild card DNS for the domain but on server two ...
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CNAME Wildcards Server 2003

I'm looking to set up a wildcard cname on a FQDN but cant seem to get it to work. This is what i'm trying to achive: A Record : domain.co.uk : my.ip.address.1 A Record : en.domain.co.uk : ...
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Wildcard DNS entry to match lang subdomain

We have a website www.example.com pointing to x.x.x.1 and a system with multiples minisites all having subdomains.examples.com pointing to x.x.x.2 Basically what we have in place is a wildcard DNS ...
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Hosting wildcard domains such as *.mydomain.com on Windows Azure without using redirections

I have an ASP.NET MVC app which offers wildcard domains to my users to personalize their login urls. I'd like to host this on Windows Azure. But is it possible to keep the wildcard domains? I've ...
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SSL,IIS: One website for multiple sub-domains and one website for the top-level domain (with or without www.))

I have multiple sub domains that should point to the same website and the top-level domain should point to another website. All of these are under SSL. For example: abc.mydomain.com ---> Website A, ...
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Using www.example.com as the A record

I want example.com and *.example.com to always resolve to www.example.com So if I set the DNS records as: www A server ip (root) CNAME www.example.com * CNAME ...
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Capture All DNS Traffic

I have a system that receives many different DNS requests every day from unauthorized users. What I need is a method to accept all DNS requests made to to this system and give back them back the same ...
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Is a wildcard CNAME DNS record valid?

I know it's valid to have a DNS A record that's a wildcard (e.g. *.mysite.com). Is it possible/valid/advised to have a wildcard CNAME record?
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DNS wildcard RRs of different type possible?

assume I have a domain with the following RRs: domain.com. IN A 1.2.3.4 domain.com. IN MX mail.domain.com. 10 * IN MX othermail.domain.com. 10 * ...
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Second Level Subdomain DNS Wildcard

I need help setting up a second level subdomain. I have set up wildcard subdomains in the past with success, but I am having trouble with the DNS entry for this one. I need to do something like ...
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DNS: wildcard domains

If I have a wildcard domain, is it possible to list specific subdomains that override the wildcard one? For example: *.domain.com. 3600 IN A 1.2.3.4 foo.domain.com. 3600 IN A 9.9.9.9
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Wildcard DNS and subdomains

Let'say that i've got the domain mydomain.com. I want that when any visitor goes to www.mydomain.com xyz.mydomain.com abc.mydomain.com asd.mydomain.com qwe.mydomain.com etc... the visitor will ...