Infoblox Grid supports IDNs for synchronized DNS data between the appliance and Microsoft servers. For more information about IDNs, see Support for Internationalized Domain Names.
The appliance stores IDNs in punycode and Microsoft server stores IDNs in \xyz format. Due to this difference at the DNS protocol level, IDNs are not allowed in a zone name when you configure NIOS (primary or secondary) and Microsoft (primary or secondary) servers. For information, see IDN Support Limitations for Synchronized Data on page 1345. If synchronized data between NIOS and Microsoft servers contain IDNs, the IDNs are preserved on the primary server. When a Microsoft server is the secondary server for a zone, MMC (Microsoft Management Console) displays the zone content that contains IDNs in punycode only. Make sure that you use a zone name that complies with the DNS protocol when manually configuring an authoritative zone.
A Microsoft server serves a resource record that contains an IDN in \xyz format when it is configured as the primary server and NIOS as the secondary server. For example, use the \xyz\xyz\xyz.com representation on NIOS for 网
络 网络 .com, a zone added on the Microsoft server.
You can add resource records that contain IDNs for the following configurations:
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The following table summarizes how the servers display resource records that contain IDNs after synchronization:
Primary Server | Input | Secondary Server | Input | NIOS displays records in... | Microsoft server displays records in... |
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NIOS | Punycode | Microsoft | NA | Punycode | Punycode |
NIOS | IDN | Microsoft | NA | IDN | Punycode |
Microsoft | Punycode | NIOS | Punycode | Punycode | Punycode |
Microsoft | IDN | NIOS | IDN | IDN | IDN |
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