Wikipedia over DNS

allyt · on April 1, 2010

DNS is basically a huge associative array [which] gets cached at nameservers

Uhoh. This might be a dangerous meme.

jf · on April 1, 2010

My favorite abuse of DNS is Dan Kaminsky using it to stream DNS.

allyt · on April 1, 2010

Explain or link, please?

acg · on April 1, 2010

Perhaps this: http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-12/ff_kamins...

He tunnelled low-bandswith video over DNS, before finding a more serious bug in DNS.

jf · on April 1, 2010

I meant to say "stream video over DNS", as per acg's link below ... it's been a long day

csarva · on April 1, 2010

Very cool hack. I especially love the inclusion of the Perl code to "use" it, as if leaving it out would leave people thinking "this is cool, but how can I use it in perl?!"

millar · on April 1, 2010

You can try this using the native OS DNS lookup tools as well -

Linux: dig hacker.wp.dg.cx TXT Windows: nslookup -type=TXT hacker.wp.dg.cx

jf · on April 1, 2010

Web browser: http://dig.jsondns.org/IN/hacker.wp.dg.cx/TXT

graywh · on April 1, 2010

Like something straight out of Cory Doctorow's Little Brother. Awesome.

ash · on April 1, 2010

Cool! It should probably work in non-free Wi-Fi zones.