Wildcard DNS Record

DNS

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Term Wildcard DNS Record

Category DNS

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Definition

A DNS record using an asterisk (*) as the leftmost label that matches any subdomain not explicitly defined. Commonly used to route all subdomains to a single server, such as *.example.com pointing to a load balancer.

DNS

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