[dns-operations] I know I'm a curmudgeon but

[Edward Lewis]

Weird...first private reply to me, someone says 
they can't see the message.  What I did was a cut 
and past from terminal in MacOS into the Eudora 
I've been using since just before it was 
discontinued.

Below, what I see makes it look like there's more 
than one layer of IDN messing with my mind.

At 11:39 -0400 7/9/12, Edward Lewis wrote:
>Running dig on a newly built Linux machine I see 
>the below output (and man page explaining it).
>
>To me this just seems wrong.  Mucking with the 
>bare metal here is not desirable.  The zone *is* 
>x n - - x k c 2 a l 3 h y e 2 a . , it is not 
>the native script version (which is unprintable 
>on the machine I'm on).
>
>Comments?  Should DiG's output be unchanged or 
>is this "good?"  Should the OS vendors be asked 
>to stop this?
>
>$   d i g   x n - - x k c 2 a l 3 h y e 2 a .   n s
>;   < < > >   D i G  9 . 7 . 3 - P 3 - R e d H a 
>t - 9 . 7 . 3 - 2 . e l 6 _ 1 . P 3 . 3  < < > > 
>x n - - x k c 2 a l 3 h y e 2 a .  n s ; ;   g l 
>o b a l   o p t i o n s :   + c m d ; ;   G o t 
>a n s w e r : ; ;   - > > H E A D E R < < -   o 
>p c o d e :  Q U E R Y ,   s t a t u s :   N O E 
>R R O R ,  i d :   2 0 8 2 3 ; ;   f l a g s : 
>q r   r d   r a ;  Q U E R Y :   1 ,   A N S W E 
>R :   9 ,  A U T H O R I T Y :   0 ,  A D D I T 
>I O N A L :   0
>; ;   Q U E S T I O N   S E C T I O N : 
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>0 	 I N 	 N S 	 n s - l . n i c . l k . 
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>o m m u n i t y d n s . n e t . 
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>	 8 6 4 0 0 	 I N 	 N S 	 n s - c 
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>; ;   Q u e r y   t i m e :   2 8 1   m s e c ; 
>;   S E R V E R :   1 7 2 . 1 6 . 0 . 2 3 # 5 3 
>( 1 7 2 . 1 6 . 0 . 2 3 ) ; ;   W H E N :   M o 
>n   J u l     9   1 5 : 3 3 : 2 7   2 0 1 2 ; ; 
>M S G   S I Z E     r c v d :   2 4 0
>It's trying to be nice (from the man page):
>
>IDN SUPPORT
>        If dig has been built with IDN (internationalized domain name)
>        support, it can accept and display non-ASCII domain names.  dig
>        appropriately converts character encoding of domain name before
>        sending a request to DNS server or displaying a reply from the
>        server. If you´d like to turn off the IDN support for some reason,
>        defines the IDN_DISABLE environment variable. The IDN support is
>        disabled if the variable is set when dig runs.
>
>I like the "for some reason" quip.
>
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Edward Lewis
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2012...time to reuse those 1984 calendars!