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Re: Show HN: Wikipedia over DNS

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Post by dang »

aledalgrande wrote: post #7
dang wrote: post #3

The opposite way from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22790425

I wouldn't say it's the opposite. It sounds the opposite from the title, but this actually returns Wikipedia content. The other one fetches a link to a site.

I just meant opposite in the most trivial sense:

  (reverse '("Wikipedia" "over" "DNS"))
  => ("DNS" "over" "Wikipedia")

Re: Show HN: Wikipedia over DNS

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Post by geocrasher »

A while back I showed how you could drop data into a server log file, and jokingly called it CurlyTP. I have thought many times about embedding a website directly into DNS.

https://miscdotgeek.com/curlytp-every-web-server-is-a-dead-d...

Anybody up for the challenge? With some scripting you could do a dig on a TXT record, parse it, and display it right in a web page.

Re: Show HN: Wikipedia over DNS

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Post by tonymet »

caseyohara wrote: post #15
tonymet wrote: post #14

this is great. DNS TXT records are under appreciated. It's a distributed key value store with distributed caching

I had never thought of it that way. What is a practical use for using TXT records a distributed KV store?

distributed config.

Re: Show HN: Wikipedia over DNS

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Post by btrettel »

willcipriano wrote: post #4
k__ wrote: post #2

I love those! The most impressive one I saw, was IP over DNS.

You may be talking about iodine: https://code.kryo.se/iodine/ You can host it yourself.

Unrelated comment: I like this sort of web design. Might just be nostalgia. It reminds me of web design circa 2001 or so. You can see many similar examples on OSWD, e.g.:

http://www.oswd.org/design/preview/id/9/

http://www.oswd.org/design/preview/id/3/

http://www.oswd.org/design/preview/id/6/

http://www.oswd.org/design/preview/id/45/

Re: Show HN: Wikipedia over DNS

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Post by aasasd »

dang wrote: post #3

The opposite way from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22790425

But! That solution made http requests (obviously), however you can in theory replace its queries with the thing in the current post and have true DNS-over-Wikipedia via the DNS protocol.
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