Will reverting DNS wildcard have any adverse affects?

Mon Oct 6 20:33:12 UTC 2003

At 15:52 06/10/2003, Piotr KUCHARSKI wrote:

> > > do arbitrary changes to them. Marking "com" and "net" as delegation-only
> > > is not harming anything. (At least until ICANN changes its mind.)
> > According to this mail:
> > http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/registrars/msg00532.html
> > ... apparently it breaks IDN resolution.  Does anybody have the definite
> > word on that?
>
>Hm. And how would it suppose to break IDN resolution? Client encodes
>the hostname, then asks the DNS about already encoded name. So the
>bind receives the request about, say, "xn--szkoagwnahandlowa-lyb21mca.pl".

I don't think Niels was referring to the "proper" IDN solution, but more 
the stopgap implementation which Verisign pushed into service. It actually 
resembles Sitefinder in many ways :/

j
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