Wikipedia over DNS (2008)

it looks like the "foo" in the domain name gets converted to FOO, then goes to the Wikipedia entry for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOO which is redirected to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery_observer#British_For..., causing host to respond with text from the image caption:

  foo.wp.dg.cx descriptive text "thumb|240px|A U.S. Marine artillery
  forward observer in a tree to get a better view of the battlefield in
  1942.]thumb|240px|British and French artillery observers of Langemarck
  (1917)|Battle of Langemarck, 1917] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
  Artillery_obse" "rver"

That's not what the I (or the original author) expected.

It does handle Greenland correctly, so yes, it does work!

  % host -t txt greenland.wp.dg.cx | fold
  greenland.wp.dg.cx descriptive text "Greenland (\"Land of the Kalaallit\"; ) is
  an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic
  and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiograph
  ically a part of the continent of North America, Green" "land has been political
  ly and culturally associated with Europe (specifically Norway and later Denmark)
  for more than a... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland"

On the other hand, Wikipedia redirects "cosine" to "sine and cosine", but host reports:

  % host -t txt cosine.wp.dg.cx
  Host cosine.wp.dg.cx not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

Re: Wikipedia over DNS (2008)

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Post by esafak » Sat, Mar 09, 2024, 8:21 PM UTC

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Post by colega » Sat, Mar 09, 2024, 8:30 PM UTC

"Associative array": how to identify a PHP developer :D

Re: Wikipedia over DNS (2008)

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Post by brookst » Sat, Mar 09, 2024, 8:34 PM UTC

esafak wrote: post #4

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Re: Wikipedia over DNS (2008)

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Post by kragen » Sat, Mar 09, 2024, 8:37 PM UTC

colega wrote: post #5

"Associative array": how to identify a PHP developer :D

or, in this case, a perl4 developer (though obviously in 02008 he was writing in perl5, not perl4)

Re: Wikipedia over DNS (2008)

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Post by kragen » Sat, Mar 09, 2024, 8:37 PM UTC

pabs3 wrote: post #2

This still works!

one of the great benefits of perl is that it still works

Re: Wikipedia over DNS (2008)

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Post by yogorenapan » Sat, Mar 09, 2024, 9:26 PM UTC

brookst wrote: post #6

esafak wrote: post #4

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Re: Wikipedia over DNS (2008)

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Post by dfee » Sat, Mar 09, 2024, 9:31 PM UTC

esafak wrote: post #4

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I read the article and the slides. No where was it mentioned that this was to circumvent censorship.

A sibling comment to this one is about Florida (though, the author appears to be in London). But, the only places I’ve experienced Wikipedia being blocked is on airplanes (well, unless you pay, everything is blocked).

Why do you think this is about censorship?