Re: [idn] URL encoding in html page

["Bruce Thomson" <bthomson@fm-net.ne.jp>]

These pages helped me get the resolver going. They might be applicable to
Debian as well.

http://www.i-dns.net/download/libc-freebsd/readme.txt
http://www.i-dns.net/download/libc-linux/readme.txt

Bruce

>
> Depending on your resolver.  On my Debian GNU/Linux system, "dig" can
> successfully look up alingsås.com.nu, and so can "host" (which warns
> that the name is illegal but prints the IP address anyway).  But the
> resolver won't have it:
>
> > ping alingsås.com.nu
> ping: unknown host alingsås.com.nu
>
> I tried adding "options no-check-names" to /etc/resolv.conf, but that
> had no effect.  I then tried changing it to "options no-check-names
> debug", but I got no debugging messages.  I don't know what's going on
> with the resolver.  I'm using glibc 2.2.5.
>
>