DNS Toys

#1

Post by edent » Sat, Jun 11, 2022, 2:44 PM UTC

DNS Toys
dns.toys

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#2

Post by djbusby » Sat, Jun 11, 2022, 3:22 PM UTC

Neat! For unit conversions there is an older tool called 'unit' which can convert nearly anything.

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#3

Post by itsmemattchung » Sat, Jun 11, 2022, 3:23 PM UTC

Awesome! Surprised to see the resolver correctly handle my typo:

$ dig seat2222tle.time @dns.toys +short "Seattle (America/Los_Angeles, US)" "Sat, 11 Jun 2022 08:22:42 -0700"

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#4

Post by Waterluvian » Sat, Jun 11, 2022, 3:42 PM UTC

“Why? For fun.”

I love this. It doesn’t need a reason to exist. It’s interesting on its own.

That being said, can anyone think of additional interesting reasons for why this would be useful rather than the same toys over HTTP?

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#5

Post by jwilk » Sat, Jun 11, 2022, 3:44 PM UTC

djbusby wrote: post #2

Neat! For unit conversions there is an older tool called 'unit' which can convert nearly anything.

Do you mean 'units'? https://www.gnu.org/software/units/

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#6

Post by patrck » Sat, Jun 11, 2022, 3:44 PM UTC

Nice. like a command-line version of Charlie Cheever's bunny1. https://github.com/ccheever/bunny1

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#7

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jun 11, 2022, 3:47 PM UTC

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#8

Post by mvuksano » Sat, Jun 11, 2022, 3:47 PM UTC

Love it!

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#9

Post by m00dy » Sat, Jun 11, 2022, 3:47 PM UTC

itsmemattchung wrote: post #3

Awesome! Surprised to see the resolver correctly handle my typo: $ dig seat2222tle.time @dns.toys +short "Seattle (America/Los_Angeles, US)" "Sat, 11 Jun 2022 08:22:42 -0700"

It is probably levenshtein distance

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#10

Post by pmoriarty » Sat, Jun 11, 2022, 3:49 PM UTC

I guess you could deliver web pages over DNS too, if you wanted... though I'm not sure why you'd want to.

Instead of DoH it would be HoD.