unicode support in domain names

Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzmeyer at nic.fr
Tue Mar 7 14:15:27 UTC 2006


On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 08:24:26AM +0100,
 Peter Dambier <peter at peter-dambier.de> wrote 
 a message of 60 lines which said:

> The reason is DNS is designed 7-bit ascii.

This is completely false and show a serious lack of knowledge about
the DNS. See specially RFC 2181, section 11, "Name syntax":

   Those restrictions aside, any binary string whatever can be used as 
   the label of any resource record.



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