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Is this the correct way to add the DNS Wildcard?

*.mydomain.com. 14400 IN A 35.63.667.54

Are any other records or changes required?

Bind has been reloaded.

What I'm getting is 404 not found errors when the activation key is clicked.

Many thanks,

Hone Watson

You can test if the DNS records are working by trying to resolve foobar.yourdomain.com

I always find it easiest to just type:
ping foobar.mydomain.com

If it resolves correctly then you know your DNS is working.

ok its working does that mean theres something wrong with my .htaccess file?

You should also have something like this in your Apache config:
ServerAlias yourdomain.com *.yourdomain.com

well I have

ServerAlias zice.ro *.zice.ro

and

zice.ro. A 85.214.51.208
www A 85.214.51.208
mail A 85.214.51.208
* A 85.214.51.208

and still get a DNS error when trying to acces a whatever.zice.ro

any more help? any more info needed to help me? followsymlinks is inside my vhosts config

* A 85.214.51.208

That's incorrect.

Should be

*.zice.ro 14400 IN A 85.214.51.208

I would politely suggest that you always read the thread you post in the correct method is stated up above.

Hope this helps,
-drmike

what the use of DNS wild card in WPMU?

The DNS wild card is needed when you are running in sub-domain mode.

Without it blog.my.domain , blog2.my.domain, blog3.my.domain won't work as the names will not resolve. By default most DNS records are set up to handle my.domain and http://www.my.domain

Forget about wildchar dns.
This is a simple trick to configure this.

Create a subdomain
*.yourdomainname and point it to the folder which the yourdomainname points to.

Issue is solved.
for eg : If yourdomainname.com points to folder
public_html then create subdomain *.yourdomainname and point it to public_html

this trick works with shared web hosting. I just now configured it in computerkid.info