Wildcard proxy for everyone
May 3, 2022Hannes Gerhart
Summary
This post announces the general availability of wildcard DNS record proxying for all Cloudflare plan levels, previously an Enterprise-only feature. It details the functionality of wildcard DNS records, including their behavior with deeper levels and specific record overrides, referencing RFC4592. The post explains how proxying wildcard records enables Cloudflare's features (Caching, Firewall, Workers) to be applied to all subdomains and highlights the automatic TLS certificate issuance for wildcard subdomains.
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