Broken IDN support in bind-utils

[Tomasz Pala]

On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 10:26:00 +0200, Tomasz Pala wrote:

> Problem occours when querying RFC 2317 type classless revDNS
> delegations.
[...]
> host -t any 128/26.211.233.62.in-addr.arpa
> host: convert UTF-8 textname to IDN encoding: prohibited character found

RFC 2317:
[...]
   Some DNS implementations are not kind to special characters in domain
   names, e.g. the "/" used in the above examples.  As [3] makes clear,
   these are legal, though some might feel unsightly.  Because these are
   not host names the restriction of [2] does not apply.  Modern clients
   and servers have an option to act in the liberal and correct fashion.

[...]
   [2]  Harrenstien, K., Stahl, M., and E. Feinler, "DoD Internet Host
        Table Specification", RFC 952, October 1985.

   [3]  Elz, R., and R. Bush, "Clarifications to the DNS
        Specification", RFC 2181, July 1997.
[...]

However it used to work about year ago, probably without IDN support,
which I suspect of making false-positive on classification.

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