Re: Validator and Internationalised Domain Names

On Monday 26 March 2007, olivier Thereaux wrote:

> Oddly, the validator instance on my own computer has no problem
> (decodes the IRIs nicely), yet the exact same validator code on the
> qa-dev server does display the issue you mention. I thus suspect an
> issue with the perl libraries the validator uses, but have yet to
> find any difference in the versions uses by these two computers.

I think it could actually very well be an issue with the system libc/libresolv 
or equivalent.  On my Fedora Core 6 system (glibc 2.5) where it works:

$ host xn--fiqa61au8b7zsevnm8ak20mc4a87e.cn
xn--fiqa61au8b7zsevnm8ak20mc4a87e.cn has address 218.241.97.41
xn--fiqa61au8b7zsevnm8ak20mc4a87e.cn mail is handled by 10 
nm.xn--fiqa61au8b7zsevnm8ak20mc4a87e.cn.
$ ping xn--fiqa61au8b7zsevnm8ak20mc4a87e.cn
PING xn--fiqa61au8b7zsevnm8ak20mc4a87e.cn (218.241.97.41) 56(84) bytes of 
data.
64 bytes from 218.241.97.41: icmp_seq=1 ttl=235 time=362 ms
64 bytes from 218.241.97.41: icmp_seq=2 ttl=235 time=357 ms
[...]

On qa-dev where it doesn't:

$ host xn--fiqa61au8b7zsevnm8ak20mc4a87e.cn
xn--fiqa61au8b7zsevnm8ak20mc4a87e.cn mail is handled by 10 mail01.cnnic.cn.
$ ping xn--fiqa61au8b7zsevnm8ak20mc4a87e.cn
ping: unknown host xn--fiqa61au8b7zsevnm8ak20mc4a87e.cn

Received on Monday, 26 March 2007 17:26:59 UTC