Enable BIND cache server to resolve chinese domain name?

Mon Jul 4 02:36:09 UTC 2005

ICANN has no right to claim that they are the authority for the namespace.
They are NOT. Also note the word PUBLIC in PUBLIC-ROOT.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Andrews" <Mark_Andrews at isc.org>
To: "Joe Shen" <joe_hznm at yahoo.com.sg>
Cc: <bind-users at isc.org>; "NANGO" <nanog at merit.edu>
Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 9:12 PM
Subject: Re: Enable BIND cache server to resolve chinese domain name? 

> 
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Some of our customer complaint they could not visit
> > back to their web site, which use chinese domain name.
> > I google the net and found some one recommend to use
> > public-root.com servers in hint file.
> > 
> > I found domain name like xn--8pru44h.xn--55qx5d could
> > not be resolved either. 
> > 
> > Our cache server runs BIND9.3.1 with root server list
> > from rs.internic.net. 
> > 
> > Do I need to modify our cache server configuration to
> > enable it?
> > 
> > regards
> > 
> > Joe
> 
> Only if you wish to do all your other customers a disfavour
> by configuring your caching servers to support a private
> namespace then yes.
> 
> I would have thought the Site Finder experience would have
> stopped people from thinking that they can arbitarially add
> names to to the public DNS.
> 
> Mark
> --
> Mark Andrews, ISC
> 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
> PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742                 INTERNET: Mark_Andrews at isc.org
> 
> 