Hi Chris, hi joe, ok..i will compile bind (resp. the libs) by myself and try it out. Thanks!
What is the way for the future: Should the browser encode idn's into punycode and send it to the nameserver (like example below) or should the browser send the un-encoded idn to the nameserver and the nameserver have to do the "encoding-stuff" ? Or both ? When i use tcpdump tomonitor the traffic on port 53 and i enter for example "www.wüstchen.de" i see: 13:16:32.856370 IP kshome-desktop.53700 > speedport.ip.domain: 60227+ A? mail.xx.de. (33) 13:16:32.857902 IP speedport.ip.domain > kshome-desktop.53700: 60227 1/0/0 A[|domain] 13:16:57.404713 IP kshome-desktop.55215 > speedport.ip.domain: 13265+ A? www.xn--wrstchen-65a.de. (41) 13:16:57.459098 IP speedport.ip.domain > kshome-desktop.55215: 13265 3/0/0[|domain] 13:16:57.601032 IP kshome-desktop.37413 > speedport.ip.domain: 790+ A? www.xx.de. (34) 13:16:57.626011 IP speedport.ip.domain > kshome-desktop.37413: 790 1/0/0 A[|domain] The browser (Firefox 3.0/Linux) seems to encode the entered Domain into punycode. When i enter "ping www.würstchen.de" i get: 13:19:35.835977 IP kshome-desktop.58121 > speedport.ip.domain: 10129+ A? www.wM-CM-<rstchen.de. (35) Look funny, not puny ;) @joe: Here some idn's: www.würstchen.de (Like Bratwurst ;) www.tür.de (Door) www.bügeleisen.de (flat iron) Best regards, Kai. _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users