IDNs and BIND...

[Ladislav Vobr]

CihanS at garanti.com.tr wrote:
> 
> But that require to install a small program on each client that converts=
>  binary representaion of m=FCller.com to ascci equivalent..There is no=
>  other choice?

yes, there is.

netscape 7.1, no client plugin required...

Ladislav


> 
> Thanks
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ketil Froyn [mailto:isc_bind at ketil.froyn.name]
> Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 2:20 PM
> To: Cihan Subasi (Garanti Teknoloji)
> Cc: bind-users at isc.org; bind9-users at isc.org
> Subject: Re: IDNs and BIND...
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 11:33, CihanS at garanti.com.tr wrote:
> 
>>I have a questionabout IDN offered by some of the ICANN accredited
>>registrars,
>>=0D
>>If a get a IDN from lets say Register.com,
>>=0D
>>How would I make my BIND understand and respond to those requests? In
>>another word, will I be able to make my own dns servers be authorative
>>for those domain names or Registrar dns servers will be authorative
>>for IDNs?
>>=0D
>>If my own DNS servers are able be authorative for IDNs, I guess
>>something has to be done in BIND as well? What this could be or is
>>this avalaible for the moment?
> 
> 
> For an IDN, you have to tell BIND to respond for the PUNYCODE
> representation of the domain. For instance, if you register the IDN
> "m=FCller.name" (U+006D U+00FC U+006C U+006C U+0065 U+0072, I think), the
> domain you are really getting is the PUNYCODE representation of the IDN,
> which is "xn--mller-kva.name", and you would have to tell BIND to
> respond to that. Other than that, the domain xn--mller-kva.name would be
> just like any other domain name, and could be set up as you wish.
> 
> (BIND does not currently need to know anything about the IDN itself,
> only the PUNYCODE representation. This would presumably have to be
> changed in the future if DNS is to support IDNs directly).
> 
> Ketil Froyn
> ketil at froyn.name
> http://ketil.froyn.name/
> 
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