I had my curiosity piqued when someone said they had problems retrieving a webpage from site 'президент.рф'. I tried wget & curl but they both recoded it into punycode. So tried ping... ping couldn't find the site at all:
ping -v "президент.рф" ping: unknown host президент.рф
So I tried 'dig':
dig "президент.рф"
; <<>> DiG 9.9.5-rpz2+rl.14038.05-P1 <<>> президент.рф ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 61303 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1 (NXDOMAIN = no such domain), But if I type the address into my browser, it goes to the russian site (kremlin.ru). I poked around a bit and found suse ping comes from the old 'iputils' package (superceded by iputils2, though iputils2 doesn't have ping). Looked a bit more and found it in the gnu inetutils package. Built it w/default config options and it resolved "right out of the box": Ishtar:tools/inetutils/inetutils-1.9.4/ping> ./ping "президент.рф" PING президент.рф (95.173.136.80): 56 data bytes. ^C--- президент.рф ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss Are inetutils being maintained anymore (looks like my version is dated 2012-12-21? -l -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org