Interestingly, Ubuntu 16.04's traceroute supports IDN, but neither tracepath nor traceroute6/tracepath6:
nornetpp@experiment:~$ traceroute bjørvika.uio.nornet traceroute to bjørvika.uio.nornet (10.1.2.100), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 fornebu.uninett.simula.nornet (10.1.1.1) 0.947 ms 0.945 ms 0.942 ms 2 uninett.simula.uninett.uio.nornet (192.168.28.246) 3.111 ms 3.114 ms 3.110 ms 3 bjoervika.uninett.uio.nornet (10.1.2.100) 5.103 ms 5.153 ms 5.140 ms nornetpp@experiment:~$ tracepath bjørvika.uio.nornet gethostbyname2: Unknown host nornetpp@experiment:~$ traceroute6 bjørvika.uio.nornet traceroute: unknown host bjørvika.uio.nornet nornetpp@experiment:~$ tracepath6 bjørvika.uio.nornet getaddrinfo: Name or service not known -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to iputils in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/175316 Title: no IDN in nslookup and host Status in bind9 package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in iputils package in Ubuntu: New Status in bind9 package in Debian: New Bug description: Binary package hint: bind9 Neither nslookup or host supports IDN. If you try , for example, to get the IP for "registrera-domän.se" it fails every time. As the use of IDN is increasing I think it would be a good thing if these tools supported this. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bind9/+bug/175316/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
