On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 01:14:15 +0200, Jens Frank <jeluf(a)gmx.de> wrote:
Subdomains of
wikibooks.org don't work, only
wikibooks.org and
www.wikibooks.org are available, but not e.g.
en.wikibooks.org.
Looks like domain wildcards are set up:
root@xoom:~>host -l
wikibooks.org
wikibooks.org name server
gunther.bomis.com
wikibooks.org name server
zwinger.wikipedia.org
wikibooks.org has address 207.142.131.235
wikibooks.org has address 207.142.131.236
*.wikibooks.org has address 207.142.131.235
*.wikibooks.org has address 207.142.131.236
This works for me:
root@xoom:~>host
en.wikibooks.org
en.wikibooks.org has address 207.142.131.235
en.wikibooks.org has address 207.142.131.236
So does this:
root@xoom:~>host
fakename.wikibooks.org
fakename.wikibooks.org has address 207.142.131.235
fakename.wikibooks.org has address 207.142.131.236
Perhaps there's something odd with the wildcard setup? I'm actually
surprised that I could see entries for "*.wikibooks.org" since I'd
thought those were supposed to be handled by the authoritative
nameservers. The way they're listed above makes it appear as if the
local resolver (or my ISPs DNS servers) would handle the wildcard part
-- perhaps that's why Jens is having trouble?
-Bill