default hosts for DNS

[stef]

I would like my websites to be accessible by simply addressing domain.com rather than

http://www.domain.com

I am running BIND 9 on Linux. According to my DNS book, I could specify an A record with an '*' for the host name

If I replace my entry of

http://www.domain.com

IN A 123.123.123.123
with
*.domain.com IN A 123.123.123.123

querying the server for domain.com does not produce an answer, whereas querying '<anything>.domain.com' does
Even querying '*.domain.com' works!

So how is this trick played with major websites?

Regards
Stef

 

[stef]

This article suggests a solution

http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/ch9/suppress.html

but unfortunately it doesn't seem to work!
Otherwise it is not a bad read!

Regards Stef