From: Aram Sargsyan <aram@isc.org>
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2022 14:13:28 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Document RRL processing for wildcard names
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Document RRL processing for wildcard names

All valid wildcard domain names are interpreted as the zone's origin
name concatenated to the "*" name.

(cherry picked from commit 89c2032421e6d64dbf1655dccce7faccad9eaf87)
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diff --git a/doc/arm/reference.rst b/doc/arm/reference.rst
index c95a449417d..ef6c1c76597 100644
--- a/doc/arm/reference.rst
+++ b/doc/arm/reference.rst
@@ -5492,7 +5492,9 @@ Response Rate Limiting
 
       All non-empty responses for a valid domain name (qname) and record type
       (qtype) are identical and have a limit specified with
-      :any:`responses-per-second` (default 0 or no limit).
+      :any:`responses-per-second` (default 0 or no limit). All valid wildcard
+      domain names are interpreted as the zone's origin name concatenated to the
+      "*" name.
 
    .. namedconf:statement:: nodata-per-second
       :tags: query