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This is soo cool. I've also came up with and been exploring this concept, as a side interest, on and off from 2017 - it is the thing that got me originally interested in SynBio. So…

The DNS name resolution is actually not done by your system or ISP, but by a DNS over HTTPs (DoH) service (Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 resolver). Cloudflare seems to be respecting the TTL a…

Sorry, but I don't understand your point. How is this "degrading critical infrastructure" and "increasing the cost of market entry"? It's also not using someone else's resources - …

At the moment, it does, but we plan to release a Docker image of the relay server so that anyone would be able to spin his/her own relay or use any other existing public relay. The…

Thank you for your insights. I understand the concerns you've raised, but there's also another side to DNS that's often overlooked: its role as a globally available, distributed da…

Using DNS for website content storage is indeed unconventional and somehow controversial, but I wouldn't say it is a bad idea per se. TXT records were designed to store arbitrary d…

I think the main advantage is the ease and speed of use for people who want a simple, business-card-like website or a holding/landing page. The main disadvantage is that due to the…

Thanks! The time for which TXT records are cached is determined by their TTLs. When publishing a DNS TXT record, you can usually set the TTL to be as low as 1 minute or even less, …

Hey HN! I'm excited to share something I've been working on: a way to set up and launch websites directly through the domain control panel. It allows anyone with a domain name to c…

For everyone who is panicking about this - to be affected, you either need to use a really old version of tzinfo (0.3.60 and earlier), have the tzinfo-data gem installed, or explic…