Current-Users archive   IDN hostname resolution in NetBSD  So,
I'm thinking about naming a host something that includes an
upper-ASCII character. In looking into IDN, and how that works
in bind, I was able to add the hostname's A record into my local
nameserver (running stock bind on a NetBSD 5.1_RC1 machine).
Interestingly, this seems to work just fine from my mac. I can
ping the hostname, and it resolves, and ping behaves as
expected. I find that I can't use host(1) (or nslookup(1) for
that matter) to resolve it, though.  It's worse on my NetBSD
machines. Both 5.1_RC1 machines and 5.99.29 machines, if i try
to host, or ping, or anything the name (I've set my LANG
environment variable to en_US.UTF-8), I simply get name
resolution failures.  Is the resolver in NetBSD able to resolve
IDN in a relatively transparent way? Are there hoops that need
to be jumped through? And, while I'm asking the question, is
there any known issues/ resolutions with setting a NetBSD
machines local hostname to an UTF-8, or Latin-1