On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 01:14:15 +0200, Jens Frank jeluf@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