Multiple variants of similar hostnames? about vpn-slice HOT 5 OPEN

I think the curly-brace expansion is not part of POSIX, and off the top of my head, I think bash and zsh support it but dash (which is /bin/sh on Debian-derived systems) does not.

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so can i do something like a wildcard? *.dev.mycompany.com... (i mean not exactly like that... but you get the point)

See #57. You can't do a * wildcard, because DNS doesn't support such a query, but you certainly can do vpn-slice {foo,bar,baz}.company.com with any POSIX-y shell.

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It sounds like you might be interested in the fancy-split-DNS proposed feature. I don't think @dlenski has made a final determination about whether or not this feature is really in scope for vpn-slice, but you might find the discussion on those issues informative.

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Well I was trying to avoid listing them specifically overall, since they are like double digits per env, 4 envs + like 10-20 outside those environments, like git, jira, wikies, logs and so on. and i don't even know all of them on top of my head... so if i miss one, something will break at some point for not being able to make a call. i guess i have to check if we have a list with all link somewhere in the wiki base, but i doubt it. and i'm using separate file to list them and can easily edit it so it's not the "physical" length of that list i'm worried about, but that i will miss a couple.

what about the exclusions? i saw a discussion about it, is it working? so i can say don't use youtube, stackoverflow, udemy, pluralsight, facebook and so on for the vpn. it would be easier for me than listing all that should be used :D and even if i "miss" something i'm using fairly often it would just use the vpn and still work :D

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Well I was trying to avoid listing them specifically overall, since they are like double digits per env, 4 envs + like 10-20 outside those environments, like git, jira, wikies, logs and so on. and i don't even know all of them on top of my head... so if i miss one, something will break at some point for not being able to make a call.

There's simply no way to implement this. DNS doesn't support wildcard queries.

what about the exclusions? i saw a discussion about it, is it working? so i can say don't use youtube, stackoverflow, udemy, pluralsight, facebook and so on for the vpn.

Patches with a well-considered user interface are welcome.

@gmacon is right that implementing this in a generalized way based on domain names rather than IP addresses will/would require new features that are rather far beyond the complexity and scope of what vpn-slice offers now.

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