Bug 218686 – net-dns/bind-tools: idnkit conversion error if strings contains '_'

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX

[Description Hayama Yossihiro 2008-04-21 05:42:56 UTC]

can't use underscores(_) when emerge net-dns/bind-tools with --enable-runidn.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.compile net-dns/bind-tools with '--enable-runidn --with-idn'
2.can't work next command with error messages.
 # dig default._domainkey.example.jp TXT 
 convert UTF-8 textname to IDN encoding: prohibited character found
3.if compile it without '--enable-runidn --with-idn' it works.




I think, idnkit have to change '_' checking.

[Comment 1 Christian Heim (RETIRED) 2008-04-21 06:13:03 UTC]

*** Bug 218688 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2008-04-21 07:15:10 UTC]

*** Bug 218694 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 3 Tobias Scherbaum (RETIRED) 2008-05-03 16:42:59 UTC]

I wasn't able to reproduce this with neither 9.4.1_p1 nor 9.4.2. Plus i couldn't find "--enable-runidn --with-idn" in bind or bind-tools.

[Comment 4 Hayama Yossihiro 2008-05-04 01:45:35 UTC]

I can find '--enable-runidn --with-idn' 
# cd ....../bind-9.4.x
# ./configure --help

and I set in /etc/portage/bashrc as follows;
if [ "${CATEGORY}/${PN}" = "net-dns/bind" ] ; then
    EXTRA_ECONF='--enable-runidn --with-idn'
fi
if [ "${CATEGORY}/${PN}" = "net-dns/bind-tools" ] ; then
    EXTRA_ECONF='--enable-runidn --with-idn'
fi

[Comment 5 Hayama Yossihiro 2008-05-04 02:12:38 UTC]

Sorry 
> I can find '--enable-runidn --with-idn' 
> # cd ....../bind-9.4.x
> # ./configure --help
is not true.

I set USE=...  idn ..." 
and /etc/portage/bashrc

if [ "${CATEGORY}/${PN}" = "net-dns/bind" ] ; then
    EXTRA_ECONF='--enable-runidn --with-idn'
fi
if [ "${CATEGORY}/${PN}" = "net-dns/bind-tools" ] ; then
    EXTRA_ECONF='--enable-runidn --with-idn'
fi

configure of net-dns/bind-tools-9.4.1_p1 is

./configure --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --enable-ipv6 --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --enable-runidn --with-idn

w/o '--enable-runidn --with-idn', domain name 'japanese KANJI'  can't be used.
with --enable-runidn --with-idn', '_' can't be used.

[Comment 6 Tobias Scherbaum (RETIRED) 2008-05-04 08:21:28 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> and I set in /etc/portage/bashrc as follows;
> if [ "${CATEGORY}/${PN}" = "net-dns/bind" ] ; then
>     EXTRA_ECONF='--enable-runidn --with-idn'
> fi
> if [ "${CATEGORY}/${PN}" = "net-dns/bind-tools" ] ; then
>     EXTRA_ECONF='--enable-runidn --with-idn'
> fi
> 

You can probably imagine that we can't support your personal hacks ...

Anyways, though bind-tools had an idn use-flag it didn't link to libidnkit until now. I fixed that in bind-tools-9.4.2 (CVS rev 1.2), please sync your portage tree and test with 9.4.2 (note the CVS rev mentioned). Please check if dig for example is linked against libidnkit.

For the "--enable-runidn" you mentioned, from my understanding this would build an additional runidn binary which would make non-idn-aware applications idn-aware on the fly. As we link libidnkit this isn't needed.

[Comment 7 Tobias Scherbaum (RETIRED) 2008-05-04 09:15:12 UTC]

(In reply to comment #6)
> ... I fixed that in bind-tools-9.4.2 (CVS rev 1.2) ...
CVS rev 1.3 that is ...

[Comment 8 Hayama Yossihiro 2008-05-04 11:21:05 UTC]

(In reply to comment #6)
> 
> You can probably imagine that we can't support your personal hacks ...
> 

I don't think so, The KANJI is being used by half of the world. The 'KANJI' is more than 15000 characters, idnkit is something to use a kanji by dns service. 
Then it's hacks for half of the world.

[Comment 9 Tobias Scherbaum (RETIRED) 2008-05-04 11:28:24 UTC]

(In reply to comment #8)
> > You can probably imagine that we can't support your personal hacks ...
> > 
> 
> I don't think so, The KANJI is being used by half of the world. The 'KANJI' is
> more than 15000 characters, idnkit is something to use a kanji by dns service. 
> Then it's hacks for half of the world.
> 

There's a difference between hacking up /etc/portage/bashrc (and that's for sure a thing we can't and won't support) and a bug in bind-tools (dig etc.) not being linked to libidnkit (which this bug seems to be *really* about) when the idn use is set.