Re: Newbie's questions implementing the [IDNA]

Erik Nordmark <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.idn
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Question2.
> What is the return value of DNS?
> I think it is the IP address just like the usual DNS return value...
> For example, when I send the query 'PREFIX-089a.com'(this is a Korean 
> character) to the resolver,
> the DNS will return the IP address for 'PREFIX-089a.com', won't it?
> 
> But the [IDNA] spec says in page 3,
> - The ToUnicode opeartion is used when displaying names to users,
> for example "names obtained from a DNS zone".
> 
> Does the DNS return a name?

An example of where a DNS lookup would return a name
is when doing a reverse lookup i.e. a PTR lookup in the DNS.

For example, 4.3.2.1.in-addr.arpa would return 'PREFIX-089a.com'
to which you would apply ToUnicode before displaying it to the user.

  Erik
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