North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: A list of (mostly) technical consequences of TLD wildcards
> Makes me wonder why Verisign didn't use a (less harmful?) CNAME wildcard ... The CNAME algorythm in RFC1034 looks for CNAMEs before it looks for wildcards, meaning that the target of a CNAME could end up matching a wildcard, but the CNAME owner itself won't be found using the wildcarding rules. see [4.3.2]. What this means is, there is no such thing as a wildcard CNAME. -- Paul Vixie
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