[Freeipa-users] DNS wildcards record for domain

[Brian Candler]

On 31/12/2016 03:08, Outback Dingo wrote:
> a bit at a loss here, whats the proper way to add a DNS wildcard for a
> domain name to resolve to www.acmewidgets.com if someone type just the
> domain acmewigets.com in a browser ?
>
>
That's not a wildcard. What you're asking for is two normal records:

www.acmewidgets.com A 192.0.2.1
acmewidgets.com A 192.0.2.1

which you can create using:

ipa dnsrecord-add acmewidgets.com www --a-ip-address=192.0.2.1
ipa dnsrecord-add acmewidgets.com @ --a-ip-address=192.0.2.1