Re: [idn] IDN examples for testing

["J. William Semich" <bill@mail.nic.nu>]

From RFC 1034:

"4.3.3.
Wildcards
In the previous algorithm, special treatment was given to RRs with owner 
names starting with the label "*". Such RRs are called wildcards. Wildcard 
RRs can be thought of as instructions for synthesizing RRs. "

From the IAB comment on Verisign's implementation of IDN :

"5] The system deployed for .com and .net does not follow the specification 
for targets not in a zone. Instead, it examines the target and decides 
whether to give the specified negative response or a synthesized record 
based on whether the target contains a code point above 127. This is a 
violation of the DNS protocol as described in RFC 2308, Section 2.1. While 
it is possible within the DNS protocol to include *wildcard records* which 
cover all queries not otherwise specified by a zone, this is not what 
VeriSign has done." (emphasis added)

(see http://www.icann.org/correspondence/iab-message-to-lynn-25jan03.htm)

I see no breakage here.

Bill Semich

At 09:37 AM 3/23/2003, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> James Seng schrieb:
> > > Can you elaborate? How does this break anything? They respond to
> > > strictly erroneous requests, with erroneous responses. I can't see
> > > how this could cause failures of other participants of the DNS.
> > Two wrong dont make it right. Nothing in RFC 1034 & 1035 mention the DNS
> > should response error with error.
> Certainly correct, and I completely agree that such a server is not 
> following the DNS RFCs. However, I was specially asking how this protocol 
> violation is "breaking the basic functionity of DNS".
>
> > According to RFC 2616, the BNF for Host header is as follows:
> >     Host = "Host" ":" host [ ":" port ]
> > And "host" is adopted from RFC 2396,
> Ah, I see. That was not clear to me, as section 14.23 refers to
> section 3.2.2 only, which does not refer further (although 3.2.1
> does, which I missed).
>
> Regards,
> Martin
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