On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, David Cantrell wrote:
> You show me a DNS server which supports kanji :-)
Although the format for domain names is 8-bit, and they do support 8-bit,
the host (according to RFC1123) must match
/^([a-z0-9]+)((.[a-z0-9-]+)*(.[a-z0-9]+))?$/i
which doesn't really give you support for hostnames in those many
characters.
> This is a big bugbear of mine. Yes, you can register domains in all these
> weird scripts, but there's bugger all software support for them, and it
and anything checking for an RFC1123 valid host will barf.
> will take *years* to replace all that's out there with new versions. Look
> at how slowly crypto use is spreading, or how little-used IPv6 is. IMNSHO,
Ah, but on the other hand look at the growth curve for the internet. It
*will* pick up.
> the registrars who are hyping their furrin-language domain registrations
> are committing a gross fraud, as registrants are led to believe that their
> new gobbledigook.com will be usable when it ain't.
Possibly true.
MBM
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