[Pdns-users] Re: Domains with binary (e.g. UTF-8) labels

2006-12-20 Thread bert hubert
Certainly (IDN was invented for a reason). The Web page http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/idn.html shows an awful ignorance of both Unicode and DNS. I haven't visited that site yet, but will do so now :-) Dec 8 13:09:47 mastermind pdns[23171]: Received a malformed qdomain from X.Y.Z.T, 'SUIVI

[Pdns-users] Re: Domains with binary (e.g. UTF-8) labels

2006-12-17 Thread Julian Mehnle
bert hubert wrote: On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 12:48:08AM +, Julian Mehnle wrote: 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

Re: [Pdns-users] Re: Domains with binary (e.g. UTF-8) labels

2006-12-17 Thread Ian Tester
On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 13:07:33 + Julian Mehnle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Case insensitivity applies only to ASCII characters. So where's the problem? We don't know if the data is ASCII. If what Bert stated is true, we don't know what the data should be. That's the problem. Passing around

[Pdns-users] Re: Domains with binary (e.g. UTF-8) labels

2006-12-17 Thread Julian Mehnle
Ian Tester wrote: Julian Mehnle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Case insensitivity applies only to ASCII characters. So where's the problem? We don't know if the data is ASCII. If what Bert stated is true, we don't know what the data should be. That's the problem. But DNS doesn't distinguish