Re: Enable BIND cache server to resolve chinese domain name?

[Edward Lewis <Ed.Lewis () neustar biz>]

At 9:39 +0800 7/4/05, Joe Shen wrote:
> 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?

Yes.

In order to get BIND to resolve a domain name under the "xn--55qx5d." 
TLD, you have to configure BIND's root hints to "point to" root 
servers making that delegation.  If you do this you won't be able to 
simultaneously use the rs.internic.net listed servers.

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