Swedish and Danish "ö" conflicts with eachother

[Anand Buddhdev]

On 22/01/15 23:30, Tommy Borginger wrote:

Hi Tommy,

> We get the following error during start of bind. The problem we
> suspect is that the machine or bind thinks the Danish and Swedish letter
> "ö" is the same.
> 
> This is the error showing up in syslog:
> 
> loading configuration from '/etc/bind/named.conf'
> /etc/bind/zones.conf:3015: zone 'dr\032\032mpor.no': already exists previous definition: /etc/bind/ zones.conf:3013
> loading configuration: failure
> exiting (due to fatal error)
> 
> Line 3013 contains:
> zone "drømpor.no" { type slave; masters {193.14.90.50;}; file "/etc/bind/db/drømpor.no";};
> 
> Line 3015 contains:
> zone "drömpor.no" { type slave; masters {193.14.90.50;}; file "/etc/bind/db/drömpor.no";};
> 
> Any ideas what may cause this?

I don't think you can use non-ascii characters in the BIND
configuration. You'll have to convert your domain names into their
punycode representation, such as:

zone xn--drmpor-cya.no { type slave ... };
zone xn--drmpor-xxa.no { type slave ... };

Regards,

Anand