On Dec 4, 2009, at 7:23 AM, Kai Szymanski wrote: > Hi Joe, > > my "problem" is: I can't test the zone with nslookup (only when i use the > puny-encoded domainname).
nslookup will only understand IDN if BIND is compiled with that option in the ./configure step. > Also other tools who uses dns to resolv the entered domainname (like ping > www.umlauttestäöü.de) did'nt work. Other CLI tools will not work. > So i thought that > > 1. The User enters a url with Umlauts in browser > 2. Browser examine url, "see" that there is umlaut in the domainname, an > encoded it (internal, so the user did'nt see it) to puny code and ask the > default nameserver for the domainname in punycode The browser has to understand IDN. Most current browsers do, including (I believe) IE 7 and later, Firefox 2 and later, and Safari 3 and later. Chris Buxton Professional Services Men & Mice _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
