Hi.

We maintain like 5 Fedora/RHEL specific patches that are modifying
host/dig/nslookup to use libidn instead of idnkit.

The change was made by the previous maintainer Adam Tkac, but I guess
the reason was that the idnkit is not included in Fedora/RHEL and
we don't want to build software using bundled libraries (it is against
Fedora policy).

I'm not sure if there is already a ISC-Bugs # number for this. However
I would like to know if you would be interested in adding support
for libidn.

I consider it more a feature request than a Bug. My suggestion is to:

- introduce new configure option to turn on the usage of GNU libidn
  (something like --with-gnu-libidn)
- use libidn2 for IDN -> ACE conversion (as libidn2 suppoerts IDNA2008 [1]
  whereas libidn supports only IDNA2003)
- use libidn for ACE -> IDN conversion where needed (as libidn2 apparently
  does not include support for this)


I am willing to make the contribution and work with you and incorporate
your feedback to make the patch acceptable.

Please let me know what do you think about this.

Thank you.

[1] http://www.icann.org/en/resources/idn/idn-guidelines-02sep11-en.htm

Regards,
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Tomas Hozza
Software Engineer - EMEA ENG Developer Experience

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