Re: Wild cards in conditional forwarding

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From: Jeff Westhead [MSFT] (jwesth_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/14/04


Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 14:58:01 -0700

You can create a single forwarder zone that would forward all
goofy.micky.mouse.com queries one set of target DNS servers. But if you need
more granularity you will have to create individual forwarder zones
manually.

"Roger Abell [MVP]" <mvpNoSpam@asu.edu> wrote in message
news:%23ndXsgwlEHA.592@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> It sounds to me that you are actually not after simple * wildcard,
> but after some type of formulaic forwarding rule
> i.e.
> domain[1-9].goofy.micky.mouse.com ==> dns$1
> such that $1 is the specific digit [1-9] in the instance
>
> IOW I do not see a wildcard in
> (domain1).goofy.micky.mouse.com - dns1
> (domain2).goofy.micky.mouse.com - dns2
> (domain3).goofy.micky.mouse.com - dns3
> even if it were possible to define this, but as others have
> said, there are 3 rules here
>
> I do not believe you have a chance in a hot wind of
> defining the formulaic forwarding rule.
>
> Now, what you could do is avoid the GUI and instead
> use programmatic method to define the multiple forwarding
> rules (and use it over and over to config each DNS server)
> --
> Roger
> "chris collins" <cacollins@ies.net> wrote in message
> news:ejQcTSelEHA.3712@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>>I need to use conditional forwarding for my child domains. the question is
>>can I use some sort of wildcard to resolve the dns names
>>
>> in other words
>>
>> I need to resolve
>>
>> (domain1).goofy.micky.mouse.com - dns1
>> (domain2).goofy.micky.mouse.com - dns2
>> (domain3).goofy.micky.mouse.com - dns3
>>
>> I would like to use a conditional forwarding statement like this
>>
>> *.goofy.micky.mouse.com - DNS1 / DNS2 / DNS3 so that my Resolvers will
>> only go to the internal DNS servers.
>>
>> so IS THIS POSSABLE.
>>
>
>



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