Re: Re: chinese dns?

> > O, you are right.  ;)  Maybe firefox is too smart. I tried 清华大学 in
> > Mozilla and Opera(under Debian), both takes me to a site called
> > http://www.menvip.com/ , which seems nothing to do with 清华大学. Why is
> > this?
> Because '清华大学' is not a domain name :-) since it has no dots in it,
> firefox first tries a local network address, and if that fails, it
> googles.  I think IDN isn't supposed to work for local names, so it goes
> straight to google instead.  Now '清华大学.cn' is quite different.

Yes, but original question was about 'foo.中国' and 'bar.公司' domains. I
can not try it because I do not know IP of DNS servers with these
domains. Or 'foo.中国' is equivalent for 'foo.cn'?

Who knows name and URL of the standard of encoding national language
characters in DNS requests?

P.S. What is 3721? (-:

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