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Q: Does QuickDNS Support load balancing?
A: Only in QuickDNS Server for Mac OS 8/9. If you have any DNS servers on other platforms, make sure you're not connected to them when creating, viewing, or editing your load balance record(s). Note that all servers supported by QuickDNS support round-robin load sharing.

Q: Does QuickDNS Support NAPTR?
A: Not yet. We are waiting for it to become a standard.

Q: Does QuickDNS Support International DNS?
A: No standard has yet been established by IETF for international domain names. For further info see:

http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/idn-charter.html

Internet Users Society - Niue permits registration of names with European accented characters, but they do so by violating the published standards. Their domains that use accented characters are incompatible with some DNS resolvers and some operating systems.

VeriSign (owner of Network Solutions) is currently hosting a Multilingual Domain Names Testbed. For more information on this testbed see:

http://www.verisign-grs.com/

The companies that are participating in this test are doing so to allow for reservation of international domain names. The names thus registered don't appear anywhere in the domain name system - they're just reserved.

Basically, the approach they're taking is to use the ACE method to encode UTF formatted domain names into ASCII format. This will allow current DNS servers to support the multilingual domain names without any modification, but the encoding from UTF to ACE must take place on the client, either at application or OS level.

We are closely following the progress regarding International DNS and we plan to support whichever method becomes a standard.

Q: What about .NU domains? They're taking accented characters now, aren't they?
A: They are, but many DNS servers won't let you enter them. Their approach ignores the standards process and flagrantly violates the rules of the Internet's domain name system, exploiting the fact that Bind 8 (but not Bind 9 with its default settings) will let you use these characters. Note that these domains are not compatible with all client operating systems, so even if a potential web visitor's local resolver is compatible with the name, the web browser may not be.

Q: Does QuickDNS Support Secure DNS?
A: Not yet. When a reasonable implementation becomes available we plan to support it. The current version has problems that need to be worked out.

Q: Does QuickDNS Support IPv6
A: Not yet.

Q: Does QuickDNS Support Active Directory Service
A: Active directory service is ordinary DNS + Support for underscore characters + DNS notify + Dynamic update.

Servers that support this standard are BIND and QuickDNS Server for Mac OS X. These servers can act as slave servers to an Active Directory master zone. QuickDNS Server for Mac 8/9 does not support active directory.

Q: Does QuickDNS Support RP Records?
A: No.

Q: Does QuickDNS Support SRV Records?
A: Yes.

Q: Does QuickDNS Support LOC records?
A: Yes, to the delight of high tech thieves with GPS trackers everywhere.

Q: Does QuickDNS support classless subnet delegation (also known as CIDR reverse zones)?
A: Yes.