Re: IDN hostname resolution in NetBSD

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

On May 26, 2010, at 22:58, Chris Ross wrote:
>   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?

  Following up on this late part of the question, it looks like UTF-8  
is bad for local hostnames.  Many things get confused, not the least  
of which is wsconsole.  But sshd seems to generate keys without  
understanding it as UTF-8, and postfix harfs, etc etc.

  Setting it to a latin1 hostname, including an ö, seems to almost  
work, or at least show the right thing on boot, but postfix still  
harfs.  Looks like postfix can't handle anything other than 7-bit  
ascii in it's retrieved hostname.

  And, when using latin1, zsh (4.3.10, with a UTF-8 $LANG) screws up  
pretty badly too, as one might expect.

  So, I think this may be "a bad idea".  :-(

                - Chris