Re: [idn] Reality Check

[Mats Dufberg <dufberg@nic-se.se>]

On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Adam M. Costello wrote:

> Okay, thanks.  It sounds like there are indeed some significant
> applications that speak DNS directly, but going through the resolver
> is by far the common case.  (Hmmm, now that I think about it, I bet
> the inability of the resolver to provide access to arbitrary resource
> records is the main reason why so few resource records have been
> deployed.)

The destinction between resolver and (authoritative) nameserver is not as
sharp as might seems. In fact, the responses from both are the same,
except for the aa flag. Often, an nameserver is used for both types of
services, typically authoritative for the local domain and resolver for
the local net. If ACE is used for IDN, then both resolvers and
authoritative servers must give respones with the same encoding.


Mats

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