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I would like to set one IP for a zone (livejournal.com)

currently I am having to directly type the subdomains like:

11.11.11.11 sub1.livejournal.com
11.11.11.11 sub2.livejournal.com
11.11.11.11 sub3.livejournal.com

etc.

I tried

11.11.11.11 *.livejournal.com

and

11.11.11.11 .livejournal.com

didn't help.

So I want to have only one line and resolve missing subdomains to IP like: sub1000.livejournal.com without explicitly specifying it

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  • The word you are looking for is domain.
    – Steve-o
    Commented Aug 25, 2011 at 8:58
  • ok, that's not possible. Got it.
    – bakytn
    Commented Aug 25, 2011 at 9:04

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No, it is not possible to use wildcards in /etc/hosts.

It is, however, possible to list multiple hosts on a single line so you don't have to keep copying the IP part, just append new hosts to the line:

11.11.11 sub1.livejournal.com sub2.livejournal.com sub3.livejournal.com
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Not possible. Each entry in /etc/hosts maps an address to one or more specific hostnames. There is no way to do a wildcard mapping as you desire; use a DNS server instead.

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This can be implemented with a DNS forwarder than acts like a very basic DNS server. The popular implementation is Dnsmaq, however this might be possible with services like OpenDNS that can perform DNS filtering for you.

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