Deleting subdomain A record with wildcard record in place
I have an A record sub.example.com
and another record *.example.com
If I delete sub.example.com
A record, will there be any resolution issues if they both point to the same IP address?
I am migrating subdomain records to use wildcard and I want to make sure there is no interruption when I delete sub.example.com
If you have both sub.example.com
and *.example.com
, per design of the DNS the wildcard kicks into use only for records NOT being sub.example.com
.
Once you delete sub.example.com
, the wildcard will then match all records, including sub.example.com
(after the TTLs have lapsed, but irrelevant if both records in fact have the exact same data anyway).