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some funny "misuse" (in a creative, positive sense) of DNS: Wikipedia entries over DNS

David Leadbeater has written a small Perl DNS Server that returns Wikipedia Information in form of TXT records. Just query for a TXT record using the search keyword under the domain wp.dg.cx

Example:
Code:

 $ dig txt Domain\ Name\ System.wp.dg.cx
 
 ; <<>> DiG 9.4.2-P2 <<>> txt Domain Name System.wp.dg.cx
 ;; global options:  printcmd
 ;; Got answer:
 ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 45712
 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 0
 
 ;; QUESTION SECTION:
 ;Domain\032Name\032System.wp.dg.cx. IN	TXT
 
 ;; ANSWER SECTION:
 Domain\032Name\032System.wp.dg.cx. 86400 IN TXT	"The Domain
  Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical naming system for computers,
  services, or any resource participating in the Internet. It associates
  various information with domain names assigned to such participants.
  Most importantly, it translates humanly" " meaningful domain names to
  the numerical (binary) identifiers associated with networking equipment
  for the purpose of..."
 
 
 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
 wp.dg.cx.		3390	IN	NS	ns.eu.l.dg.cx.
 wp.dg.cx.		3390	IN	NS	ns.na.l.dg.cx.
 
 ;; Query time: 241 msec
 ;; SERVER: 217.151.171.7#53(217.151.171.7)
 ;; WHEN: Sat Mar  7 15:54:44 2009
 ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 510

The Blog post on this is:
https://dgl.cx/wikipedia-dns