RFC 4592: The Role of Wildcards in the Domain Name System

This is an update to the wildcard definition of RFC 1034. The interaction with wildcards and CNAME is changed, an error condition is removed, and the words…

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Outgoing relationships (12 related RFCs)

Updates, Normative reference — RFC 1034: Domain names - concepts and facilities
Updates, Normative reference — RFC 2672: Non-Terminal DNS Name Redirection
Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 1035: Domain names - implementation and specification
Normative reference — RFC 4033: DNS Security Introduction and Requirements
Normative reference — RFC 2782: A DNS RR for specifying the location of services (DNS SRV)
Normative reference — RFC 4034: Resource Records for the DNS Security Extensions
Normative reference — RFC 4035: Protocol Modifications for the DNS Security Extensions
Normative reference — RFC 20: ASCII format for network interchange
Normative reference — RFC 2308: Negative Caching of DNS Queries (DNS NCACHE)
Normative reference — RFC 1995: Incremental Zone Transfer in DNS
Informative reference — RFC 2136: Dynamic Updates in the Domain Name System (DNS UPDATE)

Incoming relationships (12 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 9499: DNS Terminology
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6672: DNAME Redirection in the DNS
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5617: DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Author Domain Signing Practices (ADSP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7719: DNS Terminology
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9525: Service Identity in TLS
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8020: NXDOMAIN: There Really Is Nothing Underneath
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5155: DNS Security (DNSSEC) Hashed Authenticated Denial of Existence
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9911: Common YANG Data Types
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5507: Design Choices When Expanding the DNS
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9567: DNS Error Reporting
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7553: The Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) DNS Resource Record
Informatively referenced by — RFC 10023: The "_for-sale" Underscored and Globally Scoped DNS Node Name