Wildcard search with leading "*" fails

[smallwheels]

May it is once more just me being stupid by I do have an issue with search. When using a wildcard like * it works flawlessly as long as it is at the end of the word. If it is at the beginning of the word there are no results. I am using the standard search on my forum (still on 2.2.17), however, this is also the case on the forums here that should run an actual version (and also Elastic search).

If i.e. I want to find postings that contain the word "fail2ban" I would expect a search for...

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Wildcard search with leading "*" fails

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