Static hosting on Amazon S3 - DNS Configuration

Question

I\'m working on a little webapp (all client-side) I want to host it on Amazon S3. I\'ve found several guides on this and have managed to create myself a bucket (with the sam

Answer 1

From the Advanced DNS screen on your 123-reg control panel

• I started by clicking the "Reset DNS" button to the default 123-reg settings.

This gave me the following;

DNS EntryType       PriorityTTLDestination/Target
*                 A                                 81.xx.xx.xx              
@               A                                 81.xx.xx.xx              
@               MX          10               xx0.123-reg.co.uk
@               MX          20               xx1.123-reg.co.uk

• I then added this entry

www          CNAME                    www.example.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com

From their Manage DNS guide pdf it says the "@ record" refers to "your domain in its purest form with no subdomain" ie the naked domain stackoverflow.com

But it doesn't mention what the "* record" is, I assumed it would be to catch all sub domains and thought it might over ride the CNAME record but this does not appear to be the case.