Re: DNS for RFC3180 GLOP reverse zone ?

2010-05-06 Thread Pekka Savola
On Thu, 6 May 2010, James Hess wrote: Now that AS numbers have been extended to 4 bytes in length, and RIRs are even about to stop differentiating between them when allocating AS numbers, or allowing anyone to request and be sure of getting a new 16-bit ASN. Then you may be interested to see t

Re: DNS for RFC3180 GLOP reverse zone ?

2010-05-06 Thread James Hess
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 1:12 PM, L. Gabriel Somlo wrote: .. > I wonder if DNS for GLOP/RFC3180 is still expected to work/be supported, > or should I just give up :) > Thanks, I am not sure, but I believe as a best practice, RFC3180 is considered basically defunct at this point, it's obvious

Re: Internationalized domain names in the root

2010-05-06 Thread Joe Abley
On 2010-05-06, at 22:27, Zaid Ali wrote: > Now if I understood arabic only and was travelling or happen to use Firefox > which showed punycode how would I trust it? I agree, that seems like nonsense. The answer for non-Arabic-speakers who are concerned about whether an Arabic URL is a phishing

Re: Internationalized domain names in the root

2010-05-06 Thread Bill Stewart
I'm getting three different behaviours from Firefox - I have the page open in a tab. The tab header is in Arabic script. (And the page itself renders fine in Arabic.) - When I go to that tab, the main Firefox window title shows boxes (i.e. "don't have the font for this.") - When I go to that tab,

Re: Internationalized domain names in the root

2010-05-06 Thread Zaid Ali
I agree Safari experience looks much nicer and yes whole host of potential malice to arise. Firefox shows punycode http://xn--4gbrim.xnrmckbbajlc6dj7bxne2c.xn--wgbh1c/ar/default.aspx Now if I understood arabic only and was travelling or happen to use Firefox which showed punycode how would I

Re: DNS for RFC3180 GLOP reverse zone ?

2010-05-06 Thread Antonio Querubin
On Thu, 6 May 2010, L. Gabriel Somlo wrote: Does anyone know what's going on with DNS for 233.IN-ADDR.ARPA ? Of these, only FLAG.EP.NET actually seems to work; NIC.NEAR.NET no longer seems to exist STRUL.STUPI.SE returns SERVFAIL NS.ISI.EDU returns REFUSED I also tried to send email to ho

Re: Internationalized domain names in the root

2010-05-06 Thread JC Dill
Geoff Adams wrote: On 5 May 2010, at 2:16 PM, Jorge Amodio wrote: On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 11:34 AM, David Conrad wrote: Perhaps a bit off-topic, but some folks might get support calls... http://وزارة-الأتصالات.مصر/ (that's Arabic for .) Great progress and interesting addition

Re: Internationalized domain names in the root

2010-05-06 Thread Jorge Amodio
Hi Geoff, yes, as I reported through other channels today the new IDN based URL started landing on the Arabic version of the page. Kudos for the folks in Egypt that are now taking advantage of the new ccTLD. I noticed testing with IE8, Chrome, FFox and Safari, that Safari is the only one that kee

Re: Internationalized domain names in the root

2010-05-06 Thread Geoff Adams
On 5 May 2010, at 2:16 PM, Jorge Amodio wrote: > On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 11:34 AM, David Conrad wrote: >> Perhaps a bit off-topic, but some folks might get support calls... >> >> http://وزارة-الأتصالات.مصر/ >> >> (that's Arabic for .) > > Great progress and interesting addition to the root, only

DNS for RFC3180 GLOP reverse zone ?

2010-05-06 Thread L. Gabriel Somlo
Does anyone know what's going on with DNS for 233.IN-ADDR.ARPA ? I get: 233.IN-ADDR.ARPA. 86400 IN NS FLAG.EP.NET. 233.IN-ADDR.ARPA. 86400 IN NS NIC.NEAR.NET. 233.IN-ADDR.ARPA. 86400 IN NS STRUL.STUPI.SE. 233.IN-ADDR.ARPA. 86400 IN

Re: Thailand Internet firewall?

2010-05-06 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 5 May 2010 09:45:06 + "Dobbins, Roland" wrote: > > On May 5, 2010, at 4:39 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > > > I was also under the impression that it wasn't by IP but that they could > > block specific youtube videos etc. > > They use a combination of IP blocking, DNS poisoning,