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VeriSign Changes DNS Servers: No ASCII Needed

Posted by timothy on from the eggs-for-omelletes dept.

An anonymous reader points to this story at The Register and this one (in French) at news.yahoo, writing "VeriSign has made changes to the root DNS so that they handle non-ascii names (for .com and .net). Furthemore, an erroneous lookup results in getting a VeriSign IP, not an error message." An excerpt: "The IAB [Internet Architecture Board] feels that the system VeriSign had deployed for .com and .net contains significant DNS protocol errors, risks the further development of secure DNS, and confuses the resolution mechanisms of the DNS with application-based search systems."

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  1. On News at 11, Small town in turmoil by cyberlotnet · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Small town in Florida overnight adopted a new set of street signs they feel create a friendlier driving enviroment, and allow the non-usa population to drive safer.

    Within 24 hours the whole city was gridlocked due to wrecks from confused and misguided drivers who didn't understand what was going on...

    Yes its a Dramatic example, but valid one of what happens when things are changed without properly informing the public, Just taking things into your own hands.

    This change is not going to serve to improve the internet but instead confuse people.

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    Personal Website
  2. Great.. not really by k98sven · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Ok.. now I have full understanding why people want
    DNS adresses in their own language.

    For instance, I live in Sweden, where the township of Mönsterås has to use the
    URL "monsteras", which happens to mean "monster-carcass"..

    But on the other hand, a big point of the internet is that it's supposed to be international,
    how are for instance americans supposed to type unique swedish characters to find the web site?

    Not to mention chinese and japanese sites..