Internet Explorer Question

Daniel333

Good evening,

In your trusted sites in Internet Explorer 6 can you specify a wildcard in a non-DNS entry? such as http://192.168.1.*, trusting everything on your local LAN? Or does it just see the "*" as a character and do a DNS query? Not really in an envionment where I can test this otherwise I wouldn't bug you all.

thanks,

sprkymrk

Looks like the wildcard works. Here is how I tested:

Using IE6 SP2 on WinXP Pro SP2.
I did an nslookup on my personal website.
I then added that specific ip to my trusted sites.
When I browsed to the site by dns name it still showed up as "Internet Zone".
When I browsed to it by IP address it showed up as a "Trusted Zone".

Then I removed that ip from my Trusted Zone, and added it back using a wildcard in place of the last octet.
When I browsed to the site by dns name it still showed up as "Internet Zone".
When I browsed to it by IP address it showed up as a "Trusted Zone".

Daniel333

sprkymrk,

thanks! That is insane. Who would have thought of that?