[63477] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Will reverting DNS wildcard have any adverse affects?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Rowbottom)
Mon Oct 6 16:34:10 2003
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 21:33:12 +0100
To: Piotr KUCHARSKI <chopin@sgh.waw.pl>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Joel Rowbottom <joel@jml.net>
In-Reply-To: <20031006145240.GP18494@sgh.waw.pl>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 15:52 06/10/2003, Piotr KUCHARSKI wrote:
> > > do arbitrary changes to them. Marking "com" and "net" as delegation-only
> > > is not harming anything. (At least until ICANN changes its mind.)
> > According to this mail:
> > http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/registrars/msg00532.html
> > ... apparently it breaks IDN resolution. Does anybody have the definite
> > word on that?
>
>Hm. And how would it suppose to break IDN resolution? Client encodes
>the hostname, then asks the DNS about already encoded name. So the
>bind receives the request about, say, "xn--szkoagwnahandlowa-lyb21mca.pl".
I don't think Niels was referring to the "proper" IDN solution, but more
the stopgap implementation which Verisign pushed into service. It actually
resembles Sitefinder in many ways :/
j
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