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Package: bind9-host
Version: 1:9.11.5.P4+dfsg-5.1+deb10u1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Since buster, it seems that host insists in outputing a decoded version
of IDN domain names, and if the locale does not support it, it fails:
schaefer@virtual:~$ env LC_CTYPE=C host xn--linux-neuchtel-lhb.ch
host: Cannot represent 'xn--linux-neuchtel-lhb.ch.' in the current locale
(string encoding error), use +noidnout or a different locale
However, the suggested option +nodinout does not work.
Then the manpage says:
> IDN SUPPORT
> If host has been built with IDN (internationalized domain name)
> support, it can accept and display non-ASCII domain names. host
> appropriately converts character encoding of domain
> name before sending a request to DNS server or displaying a reply from
> the server. If you'd like to turn off the IDN support for some reason,
> defines the IDN_DISABLE environment
> variable. The IDN support is disabled if the variable is set when host
> runs.
However:
schaefer@virtual:~$ env LC_CTYPE=C IDN_DISABLE=1 host
xn--linux-neuchtel-lhb.ch localhost
host: Cannot represent 'xn--linux-neuchtel-lhb.ch.' in the current locale
(string encoding error), use +noidnout or a different locale
the only partial workaround I know is to change the locale, e.g.:
schaefer@virtual:~$ env LC_CTYPE=fr_CH.iso-8859-1 IDN_DISABLE=1 host
xn--linux-neuchtel-lhb.ch localhost
But then you don't get the xn-- but you get the diacrictic version in the
specified locale:
linux-neuchâtel.ch has address 46.140.72.222
it would be nice to have a working way of disabling this new host behaviour.
Have a nice day.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.4
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fr_CH.iso-8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1), LANGUAGE=C
(charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages bind9-host depends on:
ii libbind9-161 1:9.11.5.P4+dfsg-5.1+deb10u1
ii libc6 2.28-10
ii libcap2 1:2.25-2
ii libcom-err2 1.44.5-1+deb10u3
ii libdns1104 1:9.11.5.P4+dfsg-5.1+deb10u1
ii libfstrm0 0.4.0-1
ii libgeoip1 1.6.12-1
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.17-3
ii libidn2-0 2.0.5-1+deb10u1
ii libisc1100 1:9.11.5.P4+dfsg-5.1+deb10u1
ii libisccfg163 1:9.11.5.P4+dfsg-5.1+deb10u1
ii libjson-c3 0.12.1+ds-2
ii libk5crypto3 1.17-3
ii libkrb5-3 1.17-3
ii liblmdb0 0.9.22-1
ii liblwres161 1:9.11.5.P4+dfsg-5.1+deb10u1
ii libprotobuf-c1 1.3.1-1+b1
ii libssl1.1 1.1.1d-0+deb10u3
ii libxml2 2.9.4+dfsg1-7+b3
bind9-host recommends no packages.
bind9-host suggests no packages.
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Closing bugs that have already been fixed in stable or unstable
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