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Re: Will reverting DNS wildcard have any adverse affects?

  • From: Piotr KUCHARSKI
  • Date: Mon Oct 06 10:59:47 2003 
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 12:40:42AM +0200, Niels Bakker 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".
How would that fail with "delegation-only"?

p.

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