- BIND-9 IDN patch
+ BIND 9 IDN support
Japan Network Information Center (JPNIC)
-* What is this patch for?
-
-This patch adds internationalized domain name (IDN) support to BIND-9.
-You'll get internationalized version of dig/host/nslookup commands.
-
- + internationalized dig/host/nslookup
- dig/host/nslookup accepts non-ASCII domain names in the local
- codeset (such as Shift JIS, Big5 or ISO8859-1) determined by
- the locale information. The domain names are normalized and
- converted to the encoding on the DNS protocol, and sent to DNS
- servers. The replies are converted back to the local codeset
- and displayed.
-
-
* Compilation & installation
0. Prerequisite
-You have to build and install idnkit before building this patched version
-of bind-9.
+You have to build and install idnkit before building bind9.
1. Running configure script
Run `configure' in the top directory. See `README' for the
configuration options.
-This patch adds the following 4 options to `configure'. You should
-at least specify `--with-idn' option to enable IDN support.
+The following four options to `configure' are relevant to IDN. You
+should at least specify `--with-idn' option to enable IDN support.
--with-idn[=IDN_PREFIX]
To enable IDN support, you have to specify `--with-idn' option.
is the argument(s) to `cc' or `ld' to link the library, for
example, `--with-iconv="-L/usr/local/lib -liconv"'.
You don't need to specify the header file directory for "iconv.h"
- to the compiler, as it isn't included directly by bind-9 with
- this patch.
+ to the compiler, as it isn't included directly by bind9.
--with-idnlib=IDN_LIBSPEC
With this option, you can explicitly specify the argument(s)
* Contact information
-Please see http//www.nic.ad.jp/en/idn/ for the latest news
-about idnkit and this patch.
+Please see http://www.nic.ad.jp/en/idn/ for the latest news
+about idnkit.
Bug reports and comments on this kit should be sent to
mdnkit-bugs@nic.ad.jp and idn-cmt@nic.ad.jp, respectively.
-; $Id: README.idnkit,v 1.3 2009/01/17 09:43:50 fdupont Exp $
+; $Id: README.idnkit,v 1.1 2009/12/04 20:14:28 each Exp $