Wildcard FQDN

There are a number of companies that use secondary and even tertiary domain names or FQDNs for their websites. Wildcard FQDN addresses are to ease the administrative overhead in cases where this occurs. Sometimes its as simple as sites that still use www. as a prefix for their domain name. If you don’t know whether or not the www is being used it’s simpler to use a wildcard and include all of the possibilities wether it be example.com, www.example.com or even ftp.example.com.

Creating a Fully Qualified Domain Name address

1. Go to Policy & Objects > Addresses.

2. Select Create New. A drop down menu is displayed. Select Address

3. In the Category field, chose Address. (This is for IPv4 addresses.)

4. Input a Name for the address object.

5. In the Type fUncategorizedield, select Wildcard FQDNfrom the drop down menu.

6. Input the domain name in the Wildcard FQDN field.

7. In the Interface field, leave as the default any or select a specific interface from the drop down menu.

8. Select the desired on/off toggle setting for Show in Address List. If the setting is enabled the address will appear in drop down menus where it is an option.

9. Input any additional information in the Comments field.

10. Press OK.

Example

Example of a FQDN address for a remote FTP server used by Accounting team:

Field                                Value

Category                         Address

Name                              Example.com_servers

Type                                Wildcard FQDN

Wildcard FQDN              *.example.com

Interface                          any

Show in Address List    [on]

Comments                      Secondary and tertiary domain names for example.com