Subject: Re: [idn] Interactions between short-term and long-term

From: Dan <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 10:46:19 +0100 (MET)

>> A domain name must be matched case insensitivly, but a lot of programs
>> (Unix have a lot of them) do not.
>
>Details, please. Which programs are you talking about?

Many programs handling /etc/hosts. I know for example that 
nfs exports fail if case is wrong.
Many programs checking access based on host names (the configuratio  files
says for example: allow Openx.com, DNS returns for IP address OpenX.com).

   Dan