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Bug#181025: glibc: IDN needed, badly



Package: glibc
Severity: normal
Followup-For: Bug #181025

Hi.

Here in .de, people are rushing to the new domain names. www.öko.de,
www.müller.de, you name it.

gethostbyname() returns a null pointer when fed one of those hostnames.

Pretty please, get libidn into libc asap. It's a matter of time until
this starts to become a real problem. Ping, lynx and the other (in this
regard) broken tools aside, I don't think it would be possible to send
mail to one of those domains. Abuse unreachable, spammers paradise.

So long,
Nick

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.20
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE


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|                     Never touch a running sysop.                     |
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| Nicolas Kratz <nick@ikarus.dyndns.org> <n_kratz@cs.uni-frankfurt.de> |
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