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[Simon Wilcox]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 robin.c.smith at bt.com wrote:

> Don't do this, say your domain is mycompany.co.uk, then the * would resolve
> any of the following:-
> 
> bollocks.mycompany.co.uk
> pinkhippo.mycompany.co.uk
> etc.

Conceivably this might be what you want. The common use for this in A 
records is to allow users to have their own host, say 
essuu.mycompany.co.uk which maps onto your home directory using 
mod_rewrite to turn it into www.mycompany.co.uk/~essuu/

Generally speaking it's best avoided though.

Simon.

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