bert hubert wrote: > On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 10:37:05PM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > > IDN is mandatory for host names but should not be for domain names > > without hosts. > > People generally use DNS for host names these days. > > However, I'll make sure we'll remove this restriction in due time, even > though there is little practical use for non-host use of DNS today.
I beg to differ. MX is a non-host use of DNS (the record's owner name is not a host name). SRV is another one. > It also requires some work on the database side of things, as for > example PostgreSQL is fond of interpreting 'VARCHARs' as UTF-8, which a > random label very often is not. I'm not sure I understand what you're saying here. > Julian, you might want to open a ticket on wiki.powerdns.com to remind > us. It tends to work. Done: http://wiki.powerdns.com/cgi-bin/trac.fcgi/ticket/115 PS: No need to CC me, I'm subscribed to the mailing list.
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