IDN hostname resolution in NetBSD

[Chris Ross <cross+netbsd%distal.com@localhost>]

  So, I'm thinking about naming a host something that includes an  
upper-ASCII character.  In looking into IDN, and how that works in  
bind, I was able to add the hostname's A record into my local  
nameserver (running stock bind on a NetBSD 5.1_RC1 machine).   
Interestingly, this seems to work just fine from my mac.  I can ping  
the hostname, and it resolves, and ping behaves as expected.  I find  
that I can't use host(1) (or nslookup(1) for that matter) to resolve  
it, though.

  It's worse on my NetBSD machines.  Both 5.1_RC1 machines and  
5.99.29 machines, if i try to host, or ping, or anything the name  
(I've set my LANG environment variable to en_US.UTF-8), I simply get  
name resolution failures.

  Is the resolver in NetBSD able to resolve IDN in a relatively  
transparent way?  Are there hoops that need to be jumped through?   
And, while I'm asking the question, is there any known issues/ 
resolutions with setting a NetBSD machines local hostname to an UTF-8,  
or Latin-1 even, name?

                         - Chris