[dns-operations] a note on fetching the root zone using "dig"

[Paul Vixie]

Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> ...
>
> For script use, it seems to me that the good practice is to be
> explicit (put all the options you rely on). It may be a long list but
> you type it only once, and it makes your script both more robust and
> better documented.

i do this. but i did not know about +noidnout until the day when the 
defaults changed. while this was in this case caused by the freebsd 
ports team and their change to an internal ./configure invocation, i 
still think that nothing ./configure can do should change the default 
for tools. (this is how shell scripts remain portable.)

so back in BIND9 V9.10 when idn support was added, the default for dig 
should have been "backward compatibility", that is, no IDN output unless 
the user asks for it AND the libraries supported it.

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P Vixie