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The DNS Museum (dns.museum)

135 points by zdw 4d ago | 19 comments

herbst 2d ago
It looks very very vibe coded. Maybe try a different design approach, the idea generally sounds interesting
zimpenfish 2d ago
On the about page: "AI helped create this site, but I'm responsible for the content, so please let me know about any mistakes."

(I know pgl has been collecting DNS weirdnesses for years - that bit definitely hasn't been AI-generated.)

herbst 1d ago
Makes it even more important to put on a more unique design. Not fancy, just not the most default design any coding AI would create. I am sure many people instantly click away when they see that as well.
cachvico 2d ago
It's missing perhaps the most classic of all: someone hosted the DeCSS script (for bypassing the DRM in DVDs) in DNS around 2000.
HelloUsername 2d ago
Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883003
tazjin 2d ago
At some point I hosted my blog in DNS; it was a bunch of chunks in TXT records which the frontend would reassemble. It had really strange side effects, e.g. editing a post could shuffle the chunks but then they'd end up being cached separately and some people would see weird artefacts in the text.

I don't know why I did that, but it was fun!

jiveturkey 2d ago
the site has an example of this. https://dns.museum/exhibits/blogging-via-dns
MisterMunchkin 1d ago
I don't really understand the point of TLDs like .museum. They always seem a bit naff. Like why would you want to go to dave.accountant or whatever?
eugenekay 1d ago
Its a fun thing to put on your business card or GitHub profile, for people not early enough to have "lastname.com/net/org" registered.
ktpsns 2d ago
The various "VPN/IP over DNS" solutions miss a typical, more performance variant: VPN over UDP/53. Because DNS is frequently not filtered in badly locked down hotspots.
benjojo12 2d ago
iodine automatically detects this and switches to boring IP encapsulation if this is the case
commandersaki 2d ago
How about a page for all those DNSSEC outages?

https://ianix.com/pub/dnssec-outages.html

dc396 1d ago
https://circleid.com/posts/common-beliefs-about-dnssec-put-t...
tptacek 1d ago
... and? Not clear what that has to do with the preceding comment.
hackerbrother 1d ago
I've been trying to find a list I had previously of sites hosting webpages at top-level domains. I think there was a webpage you could access at http://ai./ for a long time.
1vuio0pswjnm7 1d ago
https://github.com/pgl/dns-museum/tree/main/content/exhibits
user3939382 1d ago
I miss Granite Canyon :(
island_dev 2d ago
A shameless plug for my own project where the DNS infrastructure plays a key role. The idea is to make a chain of TXT records where anyone with a domain name can join the chain my adding a TXT record pointing to the parent domain. https://recordrelay.net
rknightuk 2d ago
This is cool and now I'm holding the baton.