Wikipedia over DNS
Infrastructure
dns service
SHOW HN2020
215points
47comments
#247of 3,028 in 2020
Top 9%of 2020 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
2 positive, 12 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 17 comments about the project. Thread score -0.02.
Idea: 2 for, 1 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Commenters find the concept cool and nostalgic
From 3 comments
this is great. DNS TXT records are under appreciated. It's a distributed key value store with distributed caching
tonymet on HNThat’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 !
_threads on HNI love those! The most impressive one I saw, was IP over DNS.
k__ on HN
Objections
Returns only a small section of an article, so limited use for blocked countries
From 1 comment
Not really, since it only returns a small section of the queried article.
Czarcasm on HN
Requests
Return larger article excerpts within a single TXT record
From 1 comment
Would it be possible to support returning a larger excerpt of the article within a single TXT record? You should be able to get up to 64 KiB (minus a few bytes for headers, etc)…
jamieweb on HN
Questions
Could it help people in countries that block Wikipedia?
From 1 comment
Couldn’t this actually be useful in countries that block Wikipedia?
parhamn on HN
Alternatives named
iodine (IP over DNS)
From 1 comment
You may be talking about iodine: https://code.kryo.se/iodine/ You can host it yourself.
willcipriano on HN
DNS-FS
From 1 comment
A few other implementations of "DNS as database": DNS-FS: https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/dns-filesystem-true-cloud-storage-dnsfs DNS as a config management database:…
bobbiechen on HN