[dns-operations] Emoji "Female" symbol fails to resolve at Google's 8.8.8.8 & 8.8.4.4

[James Stevens]

Well spotted - thanks!


On 11/07/17 14:54, Warren Kumari wrote:
> Because the DNSSEC for that domain is broken....
> http://dnsviz.net/d/xn--e5h.com/dnssec/
> 
> The other resolvers that you tried presumably do not validate....
> 
> Working as intended, will not fix :-),
> W
> 
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 9:41 AM, James Stevens <James.Stevens at jrcs.co.uk> wrote:
>> Although the "Female" symbol (U+2640 ♀) is not IDNA2008 compliant, it had
>> been sold as a dot-COM some time ago - along with a few other "emoji"
>> dot-COM domains.
>>
>> It used to work fine at Google's resolver service, and works fine at other
>> resolvers I tried, but Google now immediately returns "status: SERVFAIL"
>>
>> Anybody know why Google now returns "status: SERVFAIL" for ♀.com
>> (xn--e5h.com), but still works fine for ☮.com (xn--v4h.com)
>>
>>
>> The NS for xn--e5h.com are ...
>>
>> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
>> xn--e5h.com.            172800  IN      NS      ns75.domaincontrol.com.
>> xn--e5h.com.            172800  IN      NS      ns76.domaincontrol.com.
>>
>> and they are still working fine.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> James
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