DNS/用語/wildcards/RFC1912について、ここに記述してください。
2.7 Wildcard records Wildcard MXs are useful mostly for non IP-connected sites. A common mistake is thinking that a wildcard MX for a zone will apply to all hosts in the zone. A wildcard MX will apply only to names in the zone which aren't listed in the DNS at all. e.g., podunk.xx. IN NS ns1 IN NS ns2 mary IN A 1.2.3.4 *.podunk.xx. IN MX 5 sue Mail for mary.podunk.xx will be sent to itself for delivery. Only mail for jane.podunk.xx or any hosts you don't see above will be sent to the MX. For most Internet sites, wildcard MX records are not useful. You need to put explicit MX records on every host.
上の記述は不正確である。
- A wildcard MX will apply only to names in the zone which aren't listed in the DNS at all.
Wildcard MXs can be bad, because they make some operations succeed when they should fail instead. Consider the case where someone in the domain "widget.com" tries to send mail to "joe@larry". If the host "larry" doesn't actually exist, the mail should in fact bounce immediately. But because of domain searching the address gets resolved to "larry.widget.com", and because of the wildcard MX this is a valid address according to DNS. Or perhaps someone simply made a typo in the hostname portion of the address. The mail message then gets routed to the mail host, which then rejects the mail with strange error messages like "I refuse to talk to myself" or "Local configuration error".
Wildcard MX records are good for when you have a large number of hosts which are not directly Internet-connected (for example, behind a firewall) and for administrative or political reasons it is too difficult to have individual MX records for every host, or to force all e-mail addresses to be "hidden" behind one or more domain names. In that case, you must divide your DNS into two parts, an internal DNS, and an external DNS. The external DNS will have only a few hosts and explicit MX records, and one or more wildcard MXs for each internal domain. Internally the DNS will be complete, with all explicit MX records and no wildcards.