DNS over Wikipedia

> Instead of googling for the site, I google for the site's Wikipedia article ("schihub wiki") which usually has an up-to-date link to the site in the sidebar, whereas Google is forced to censor their results.

In the video, it doesn’t show this. It shows going to the scihub.idk domain. And then a redirect happens. So does this tool just host a local a domain resolver (and HTTP redirect server) for all .idk domains that does a wiki search and then responds with a HTTP redirect?

Re: DNS over Wikipedia

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Post by gumby » Fri, Dec 02, 2022, 3:30 PM UTC

This is actually better than the title suggests.

I thought it might be something like automated edits to Wikipedia talk pages as a database or cache, which would be abusive.

But actually it's using Wikipedia entries as a smart name search. This is read-only and a clever and legit use of the WP. If the browsers allowed the use of spaces in the domain name portion URLs it would be even more useful, but it's probably better that they don't (out of spec for TLDs)

Re: DNS over Wikipedia

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Post by andyp-kw » Fri, Dec 02, 2022, 3:30 PM UTC

billpg wrote: post #2

Is it actually DNS, or is there a custom name-to-IP lookup process going on? Also, am I just needlessly splitting hairs?

Wikipedia is acting as a system for domain name retrieval.

Re: DNS over Wikipedia

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Post by camhart » Fri, Dec 02, 2022, 3:31 PM UTC

What's the use case? Or just a fun programming task?

Wouldn't this hammer wikipedia unnecessarily? DNS are very quick, lightweight requests.

Re: DNS over Wikipedia

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Post by TOGoS » Fri, Dec 02, 2022, 3:31 PM UTC

billpg wrote: post #2

Is it actually DNS, or is there a custom name-to-IP lookup process going on? Also, am I just needlessly splitting hairs?

> Also, am I just needlessly splitting hairs?

Since the linked README doesn't even mention "IP", I suspect the author misunderstands what "DNS" is about, and this is actually a search tool, and the headline is bad.

Re: DNS over Wikipedia

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Post by amadeuspagel » Fri, Dec 02, 2022, 3:31 PM UTC

I thought the chrome extension didn't work at first, but you have to type "https://scihub.idk" rather then just "scihub.idk", which leads to a google search.

Re: DNS over Wikipedia

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Post by davrosthedalek » Fri, Dec 02, 2022, 3:33 PM UTC

camhart wrote: post #7

What's the use case? Or just a fun programming task? Wouldn't this hammer wikipedia unnecessarily? DNS are very quick, lightweight requests.

This is not doing DNS. This is "domain name autocomplete".