Re: [ga] On Its Way: One of the Biggest Changes to the Internet

["Ram Mohan" <rmohan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> (It is amazing the devices than can be sent into the weeds by giving 'em a 
> SIP or HTTP URI/URL that contains a domain name that gets mapped via a 
> CNAME into something that is either very long or contains the full variety 
> of 8-bit characters without honoring the "hostname" character set 
> constraint.)
This is interesting to know - as you say, it's not IDN specific, but is more 
likely to be triggered by long strings more commonly encountered in IDN 
Punycode.
I've seen a number of poor DNS implementations also on mobile phones.

UTF-8 on the wire - even supposedly "well-behaved" applications often have 
trouble understanding what to do with it, or they mangle/garble the 
request-response with great ease.
-ram