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What?

This is an encoding of non-ascii-characters into ascii, i.e. accessing https://日本語.fluxcoil.net/ in the browser gets possible. The application (like browser) translates 日本語 and then accesses https://xn--wgv71a119e.fluxcoil.net .

data

### install libidn
sudo yum -y install libidn

### convert 日本語
$ idn 日本語
xn--wgv71a119e

### entry in binds zonefile:
xn--wgv71a119e  CNAME   ns1

### verification if resolving works
$ dig +short 日本語.fluxcoil.net
ns1.fluxcoil.net.
37.221.196.24
snippets/dns_punycode.txt · Last modified: 2022/11/13 12:06 by 127.0.0.1