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I am trying to setup an internal staging server for a web application that relies on wildcard subdomains.

I would appreciate some guidance in how to setup wildcard subdomains with Windows Server 2003 DNS. (I don't seem to be able to enter "*.domain.tld. IN A 1.2.3.4" directly)

Thanks.

More information:

I have a zone MY.LAN, under that I have a server (A record) staging01. I want to setup up wildcard subdomains for staging01

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I've just checked and you can definately enter the wildcard entry directly into server 2003 DNS. Just go to new A record in the right zone, enter * in the name box and then enter the IP, works fine.

Sam Cogan
I was able to execute your instructions but was still unable to connect to the machine using a wildcard subdomain (i.e. it still recognizes stagin01 but not test.staging01) Is there something else I need to do?
If you ping the domain, what response do you get, the right IP?
Sam Cogan