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Re: Show HN: Wikipedia over DNS

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Post by bobbiechen » Wed, Apr 08, 2020, 12:29 PM UTC

A few other implementations of "DNS as database":

DNS-FS: https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/dns-filesystem-true-cloud-st...

DNS as a config management database: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/aws-morning-brief/whit...

"A globally-distributed, eventually-consistent, 100% available key-value store ;)" (I haven't actually tried running this code personally): https://github.com/craftyphotons/ten34

Re: Show HN: Wikipedia over DNS

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Post by ainar-g » Wed, Apr 08, 2020, 12:38 PM UTC

hising wrote: post #37

askmike wrote: post #22

Great start, but plain text in 2020? I propose we design a markup language so this can be parsed. How about DTML? And maybe some styling rules as well, we can call it DSS. And we can't forget a basic scripting language called DJS. I'll start working on the parser, we can call it a drowser.

I'll have to say that DTML seems to be a mess and missing the point and suggest we start working on XDTML.

XDTML 2.0 you mean? XDTML 1.0 is merely a serialisation of DTML. With XDTML 2.0 in place, the real fun can start!

Re: Show HN: Wikipedia over DNS

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Post by hvenev » Wed, Apr 08, 2020, 1:02 PM UTC

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.

At some point I had a binary for the iodine client stored as DNS records, and another DNS record with a shell script that would fetch and decode them.

Re: Show HN: Wikipedia over DNS

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Post by tomcooks » Wed, Apr 08, 2020, 1:09 PM UTC

The other day, while I was messing with Letsencrypt TXTDNS auth I was wondering:

Is there a problem with updating DNS TXT records too often?

It could become an interesting way to create a "decentralized" microblogging network.

Re: Show HN: Wikipedia over DNS

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Post by _threads » Wed, Apr 08, 2020, 8:17 PM UTC

That’s really cool ! A security teacher told me a long time ago about these possibilities and I love the concept, I love Wikipedia and I love plain text, so thanks a lot for this !

Re: Show HN: Wikipedia over DNS

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Post by easrng1 » Thu, Apr 09, 2020, 1:48 AM UTC

I actually made this same thing recently: https://github.com/easrng/wiki-pdns

Re: Show HN: Wikipedia over DNS

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Post by zzo38computer » Fri, Apr 10, 2020, 2:21 AM UTC

askmike wrote: post #22

Great start, but plain text in 2020? I propose we design a markup language so this can be parsed. How about DTML? And maybe some styling rules as well, we can call it DSS. And we can't forget a basic scripting language called DJS. I'll start working on the parser, we can call it a drowser.

I think plain text is OK. There is also Markdown, MediaWiki format, etc, although a simple readable format is best, so that includes plain text (and possibly Markdown too).

And even if another format is made, we should avoid the mistakes of HTML, such as scripting and styling and some other stuff.

Re: Show HN: Wikipedia over DNS

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Post by totetsu » Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 12:54 AM UTC

0-_-0 wrote: post #35

totetsu wrote: post #32

Now do it for stack exchange sites :) dig how-do-i-block-edit-in-vim.wpodns.adtac.in txt

I think you meant how-do-i-exit-vim.wpodns.adtac.in

:exec system("dig how-do-i-exit-vim.wpodns.adtac.in txt +short| tr -d '\"'")