can I disable dns wildcard redirection?

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    richardykuo · Member ·

    WordPress seems to redirect any unknown subdomains to the main domain. aka unknown.mydomain.com goes to mydomain.com. I need this to not happen.

    The reason is that I have private networks that use subdomains of mydomain.com. But the DNS hosting on wordpress.com resolves these subdomains to the public internet address of mydomain.com. This confuses computers joining the VPN.

    Possible to disable this? I simply want any invalid subdomain to stay invalid. I don’t want the wildcard DNS.

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    gracejiyoung · Member ·

    Hi there,

    I have brought this back to our team for further review. In the meantime if you have any questions, please let me know!

    Cheers!

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    richardykuo · Member ·

    Thanks. I think I may have worked around the problem by specifying an additional wildcard CNAME with the subdomain I want to exclude, and pointing at a .invalid domain.

    Still, the wildcard handling should be something that can be disabled. It’s not always correct or desirable.

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    gracejiyoung · Member ·

    Hi there,

    Our team looked at it and saw that you were able to work around it. They also switched your wildcard for a www.

    Cheers!

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