Hi

I just wondered if Linode has considered wildcards on sub-domains again?

All the other DNS providers I use can do it.

Cloudflare went down again this morning, I use PointHQ as a DNS provider for backups and other domains. I would like to use Linode as a primary and/or backup but am reluctant to use Linode because you dont do wildcards like others. If you did then Linode would be as suitable as any other.

Thanks

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Web Development Agency in South Wales

You can do that now, and have been able to do so for as long as I can remember. Just create a zone for "foo.example.org" and add the "*" record in that zone.

- Les

And if all your wildcards uses point to the same IP, just add *.domain.com at the top level, since it will match foo.bar.baz.domain.com. Otherwise you will need to add a more specific zone and then the wildcard entry under it.

-Chris

Hi Les, so you mean add a sub-domain as a new domain, then add * as sub-domain of that? Hmm, I dont think I want to do that. I want to mirror my DNS for domain on Linode with one elsewhere, as a backup service. I can see issues having separate sub-domains as separate zones in Linode, like forgetting to update it maybe. I am trying to configure the remote DNS update for slave zones too, not sure how that will work with separate sub-domains.

Chris, no this is not the same IP as the parent domain. I have sub-domains under my main domain for all my servers, and each server may have various services I access on their own sub-domains, most usually though I add development web sites on sub-domains without having to add a DNS record and wait for it to propagate. I have many multisite managers on a server that creates websites on the fly but needs a domain to work, and I cant wait for DNS. I would need to access the site immediately. So having *.system1.mydomainname.co.uk is a necessity. Dont know why Linode just dont allow it

Thanks

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Web Development Agency in South Wales

amityweb,
I think you are confusing zone and domain. If you express what you want more clearly, maybe with some ascii art, it might make more sense to us.

You should be able to run your own DNS server as an unpublished master though. i.e. setup your own DNS server exactly the way you want with linode's servers listed as your NS records, then setup Linode's servers as slaves to your master. Then tell your registrar to use the Linode servers.

Sorry I thought it was clear enough...

Main domain: mydomain.com <- this is a domain in Linode
Sub-Domain: myserver.mydomain.com <- this is an A record added in the above domain
Wildcard Sub-Domain: *.myserver.mydomain.com <- this is what I need to do, which other DNS managers I use do, but Linode wont allow it, and I think they should.

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Web Development Agency in South Wales