How to get a server-*.da.direct address?

[ErikR]

Hi,
With a new DA installation I get automaticly an adress on the da.direct domain, like server-136-133-97-*.da.direct. Is it also possible to get an address on this domain for older, but updated DA installations?

 

[Active8]

you can change your domain and hostname is that the question.

 

[Richard G]

Is it also possible to get an address on this domain for older, but updated DA installations?

I'm not sure, but you will certainly run into problems when you keep using this as hostname, when using it for shared hosting.
What's the problem with using own domains for hostnames? Or even just one self owned domain which you use several hostnames for?

 

[zEitEr]

With a new DA installation I get automaticly an adress on the da.direct domain, like server-136-133-97-*.da.direct. Is it also possible to get an address on this domain for older, but updated DA installations?

I don't know how they did it at DirectAdmin, but it seems one can use the hostname of the kind server-1-2-3-4.da.direct with any IP. For example:

- server-1-1-1-1.da.direct resolves to 1.1.1.1
- server-8-8-8-8.da.direct resolves to 8.8.8.8

and so on.

 

[Richard G]

I don't know how they did it at DirectAdmin,

I'm curious to that too.

They did it by using a wildcard number with only digits in DNS in some way.

So like:
server-*-*-*-*.da.direct
where the * can only be digit(s) and nothing else and it must be preceded by server-anything else like host-1.1.1.1.da.direct will not work.
Not sure if the amount of digits is also limited, I didn't test that, but probably it is.

 

[zEitEr]

They use PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.

 

[Richard G]

I didn't know that was possible with PowerDNS. Interesting.

 

[zEitEr]

I didn't know that was possible with PowerDNS. Interesting.

I did not go into deep details. I believe they use LUA for it: https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/lua-records/