Adding a wildcard record to a DNS server

Setting up a wildcard Domain Name System (DNS) server for your locked widget domains is another required prerequisite, regardless of your deployment.

About this task

Configure your DNS server for wildcard hosting so that requests from your widget subdomains can be processed through a single web server.

Procedure

For details about setting up a wildcard DNS server, see these sites:
  • http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/ch9/subdomain.html
  • http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/358