Hi. I'm evaluating IDN (international domain names) right now and made a rediffed patch for latest bind. The patch makes host, nslookup and dig IDN aware and links against the libidnkit1 library from contribs.
Here's packages: http://www.deserve-it.com/Cooker/RPMS/idnkit-tools-1.0-1mdk.i586.rpm http://www.deserve-it.com/Cooker/RPMS/libidnkit1-devel-1.0-1mdk.i586.rpm http://www.deserve-it.com/Cooker/RPMS/libidnkit1-1.0-1mdk.i586.rpm http://www.deserve-it.com/Cooker/RPMS/bind-devel-9.2.3-0.rc4.3mdk.i586.rpm http://www.deserve-it.com/Cooker/RPMS/bind-utils-9.2.3-0.rc4.3mdk.i586.rpm http://www.deserve-it.com/Cooker/RPMS/bind-9.2.3-0.rc4.3mdk.i586.rpm http://www.deserve-it.com/Cooker/SRPMS/bind-9.2.3-0.rc4.3mdk.src.rpm http://www.deserve-it.com/Cooker/SRPMS/idnkit-1.0-1mdk.src.rpm Here's output from the bind stuff: [EMAIL PROTECTED] i586]# nslookup www.r�ksm�rg�s.se Server: 192.168.100.1 Address: 192.168.100.1#53 Non-authoritative answer: www.r�ksm�rg�s.se canonical name = ext.nic-se.se. Name: ext.nic-se.se Address: 212.247.3.81 [EMAIL PROTECTED] i586]# host www.r�ksm�rg�s.se www.r�ksm�rg�s.se is an alias for ext.nic-se.se. ext.nic-se.se has address 212.247.3.81 [EMAIL PROTECTED] i586]# dig www.r�ksm�rg�s.se ; <<>> DiG 9.2.3rc4 <<>> www.r�ksm�rg�s.se ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 42689 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 3 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;www.r�ksm�rg�s.se. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: www.r�ksm�rg�s.se. 33468 IN CNAME ext.nic-se.se. ext.nic-se.se. 2615 IN A 212.247.3.81 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: nic-se.se. 3359 IN NS dns5.telia.com. nic-se.se. 3359 IN NS orebro.dns.swip.net. nic-se.se. 3359 IN NS ns.nic-se.se. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: ns.nic-se.se. 3359 IN A 212.247.3.78 dns5.telia.com. 83136 IN A 194.22.190.13 orebro.dns.swip.net. 4889 IN A 192.71.180.45 ;; Query time: 2 msec ;; SERVER: 192.168.100.1#53(192.168.100.1) ;; WHEN: Thu Oct 9 16:56:53 2003 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 210 [EMAIL PROTECTED] i586]# nslookup www.g�llivare.se 194.117.184.29 Server: 194.117.184.29 Address: 194.117.184.29#53 Name: www.g�llivare.se Address: 194.117.184.29 Quite funny! Here's output of idnconv from the idnkit: [EMAIL PROTECTED] i586]# echo "www.r�ksm�rg�s.se" | idnconv www.xn--rksmrgs-5wao1o.se You should also be able to surf to "htp://www.r�ksm�rg�s.se" with Mozilla v1.4. I think this is interesting as it seems we now have some sort of a established standard for international domain names..., that wasn't true when I tried this last time (maybe 2 years ago?). Cheers. -- Regards // Oden Eriksson, Deserve-IT.com
