Why is my wildcard DNS entry not working

Cedric Legoux 0 Reputation points
2025-06-17T08:43:21.68+00:00

I created the wildcard A record DNS entry *.mydomain.com.au

however if I do a lookup for any subdomain for example test.mydomain.com.au of that main domain it returns no result. why ?

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  1. TP 132.2K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2025-06-17T09:10:54.2533333+00:00

    Hi Cedric,

    To confirm, when you created A record you entered only * in Name field, correct? When viewed from Azure portal it would look similar to below:

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    Please click Accept Answer if the above was helpful.

    Thanks.

    -TP

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