Is there support for glob hosts?

[antoyo]

Hi.
I want to use this script, but there's many hosts with a predictable format that I want to use this script with, without having to list them all.
Is there a way to specify hosts with a glob, something like: test-*.bigcorp.com?
Thanks.

[dlenski]

Is there a way to specify hosts with a glob, something like: test-*.bigcorp.com?

Not exactly, because DNS itself doesn't support any kind of wildcard search that would allow this.

However, you can use most Unix shells' brace expansion mechanism test-{foo,bar,baz,quux}.bigcorp.com to expand and lookup a finite explicit list of hosts.

[antoyo]

I guess that's good enough for my use case.
Thanks.