Can I use nested DNS wildcard records











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I would like to have multiple dns entries with wildcards such that one entry is nested as subdomain of another



CNAME *.example.com -> webserver.example.com

CNAME *.api.example.com -> apiserver.example.com


The intention being that I can use customer.example.com to access the webserver and customer.api.example.com to access the api server.



Since customer.api.example.com is a valid match for both of the wildcard entries i'm not sure how this will get resolved.



I have tested this on AWS route53 as the DNS provider and it seems to work as expected.customer.api.example.com resolved to the api server. But i'm not sure if this is guaranteed by the DNS spec or was just chance it picked the correct server.



Is this behaviour something I can rely on to be consistent?






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    I would like to have multiple dns entries with wildcards such that one entry is nested as subdomain of another



    CNAME *.example.com -> webserver.example.com
    
CNAME *.api.example.com -> apiserver.example.com


    The intention being that I can use customer.example.com to access the webserver and customer.api.example.com to access the api server.



    Since customer.api.example.com is a valid match for both of the wildcard entries i'm not sure how this will get resolved.



    I have tested this on AWS route53 as the DNS provider and it seems to work as expected.customer.api.example.com resolved to the api server. But i'm not sure if this is guaranteed by the DNS spec or was just chance it picked the correct server.



    Is this behaviour something I can rely on to be consistent?






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      I would like to have multiple dns entries with wildcards such that one entry is nested as subdomain of another



      CNAME *.example.com -> webserver.example.com
      
CNAME *.api.example.com -> apiserver.example.com


      The intention being that I can use customer.example.com to access the webserver and customer.api.example.com to access the api server.



      Since customer.api.example.com is a valid match for both of the wildcard entries i'm not sure how this will get resolved.



      I have tested this on AWS route53 as the DNS provider and it seems to work as expected.customer.api.example.com resolved to the api server. But i'm not sure if this is guaranteed by the DNS spec or was just chance it picked the correct server.



      Is this behaviour something I can rely on to be consistent?






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      I would like to have multiple dns entries with wildcards such that one entry is nested as subdomain of another



      CNAME *.example.com -> webserver.example.com
      
CNAME *.api.example.com -> apiserver.example.com


      The intention being that I can use customer.example.com to access the webserver and customer.api.example.com to access the api server.



      Since customer.api.example.com is a valid match for both of the wildcard entries i'm not sure how this will get resolved.



      I have tested this on AWS route53 as the DNS provider and it seems to work as expected.customer.api.example.com resolved to the api server. But i'm not sure if this is guaranteed by the DNS spec or was just chance it picked the correct server.



      Is this behaviour something I can rely on to be consistent?






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