Hello! I’m trying to create a wildcard SRV record so I can join my Minecraft server with everything.mydomain.com
But it isn’t working.
Any ideas on how I can achieve this?
But it isn’t working.
Any ideas on how I can achieve this?
up up?
You can have a wildcard for the name, but not the target (e.g. *.example.com). The target needs to be an actual hostname (something.example.com). *.example.com is not a valid DNS hostname… an attempt to lookup *.example.com will fail.
The target is a valid hostname and the name is “*”
* is not a valid hostname
I can’t get a wildcard in there to work, and can’t find any real world examples of it working.
How can I do an SRV record which works with [INSERT ANYTHING HERE].example.com then?
That does seem to work. I wonder if it’s a limitation of Cloudflare DNS. I can get “sub” to work, but not “*”
Use a wildcard for the name and an actual valid hostname for a host.
What seems to work?
That’s exactly what I did?
Then you’ll need to provide more detail about what isn’t working.
So, here is my actual SRV record:
My A record:
And if I try to connect in Minecraft with
hello.ethernia.fr, it doesn’t work. but *.ethernia.fr works (it’s not working like a wildcard)
Do you have a wildcard A or CNAME record which will resolve hello?
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Hey, so I’m pretty sure that you’re SRV record isn’t actually doing anything in that case and its your A name record is doing everything. To my knowledge, its impossible to use wildcards in SRV records unless @cscharff would like to correct me.
You can check if your SRV record is doing anything by removing it and seeing if there is any difference.
I was trying to do the same thing you did but I also had a website associated with the same domain (which means I needed to use an SRV record, and not a cname or A record) which caused problems. If you only have a minecraft server on your domain that solution should work fine but to answer your original problem of wildcards in SRV records it would not work.
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