Is it actually DNS, or is there a custom name-to-IP lookup process going on? Also, am I just needlessly splitting hairs?
Its host aliasing
DNS over Wikipedia
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#22Is 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.
DNS is for associating various information with domain names, and looking that information up. Yes, the most popular information to associate with a domain name is IPv4- and IPv6-addresses via A and AAAA fields; but CNAME records exist as well, you know.
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#24I love this so much, although it sucks that this is actually useful.
ITT: people who didn't actually read what the project does
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#25If the point is to get to the site faster, why is the TLD "idk"? Couldn't it be 1 letter or at least the same three letters?
On a separate note, someone could actually make a website do this without any extension. It would need to use wikipedia dumps and has the advantage it can't be suddenly edited by a malicious actor.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
In what way is this abuse?
Depending if this became "popular", could overload them with traffic. I presume this is a fun test project though, so I doubt it would cause much harm, but it could be there.
It's hitting the Wikipedia API, which I can assure you is used to seeing a lot worse.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
In what way is this abuse?
Depending if this became "popular", could overload them with traffic. I presume this is a fun test project though, so I doubt it would cause much harm, but it could be there.
Overload wikipedia with traffic? As opposed to manually opening a Wikipedia page and copypasting the URL from it?
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#28I 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.
I think you can also do "scihub.idk/", the trailing slash forces Chrome to treat it as an URL.
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#29This 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 be…
Exactly. Almost gives credence to the idea of a well-behaved decentralized peer-to-peer network.
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#30Is 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.
Many record types contain hostnames as values. So many that it isn’t even worth listing all of them here.