The collection

A traceroute that follows the verses of American Pie.

A traceroute that delivers a message from Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog.

A seasonal traceroute that returns a repeated Christmas greeting.

A football-themed route that makes the trip to a host a small spectacle.

A traceroute extension that uses IPv6 to reveal more of a path.

A route that delivers song lyrics through DNS names, including a seasonal version.

A route to beagle.net that turned an ordinary network diagnostic into a space opera.

DNS carried over normal, unencrypted TCP streams.

Dynamic DNS updates carried through Internet Relay Chat.

A Mastodon-based DNS service that uses DNSSEC authentication.

A service for calling a recursive DNS resolver by telephone.

A Signal service that shows a DNS query and answer as a secure-message conversation.

A text-message exchange used as a transport for DNS queries and replies.

A chat bot that resolves DNS questions from a messaging conversation.

A short-lived resolver interface built around a social-media account.

A deferred XMPP extension for DNS queries and responses.

A GitHub project that turns a ping-style request into a DNS interaction.

Blog posts published as TXT records.

Arithmetic results returned from DNS queries.

A general-purpose dynamic DNS server used to look up cocktail recipes.

A cache description retrieved from a carefully formed DNS query.

A text adventure played through DNS queries and round-robin answers.

A set of small DNS TXT-record experiments by B’ad Samurai.

Weather information delivered as DNS answers through the Drink service.

A group of small command-line services exposed through DNS.

A comic about Google focusing on its public DNS server.

A web page whose contents are fetched from DNS rather than from the web server that frames it.

An IP address to autonomous-system lookup delivered through DNS.

The International Space Station’s position returned in DNS LOC records.

A resolver query that reports the client address it sees.

Wikipedia articles retrieved through DNS queries.

A Wordle-style game played entirely through DNS queries.

Data moved through DNS queries and answers instead of its usual transport.

A DNS tunnelling tool that makes traffic resemble ordinary DNS requests.

File Transfer Protocol traffic transported through DNS.

A proof of concept that carries HTTP requests in DNS labels and reconstructs them at a server.

An IPv4 tunnel that carries IP traffic through DNS queries and answers.

A tunnel design that places VPN traffic inside DNS transport.

A chatbot interface designed to work through DNS while offline from the usual web.

Brand indicators for email published in DNS TXT records.

A DNS server that resolves names to cats.

Route 53 used as a store for application configuration.

A public interface for storing and retrieving values from a DNS domain.

A proof of concept that treats DNS as a distributed key-value data store.

A filesystem-style concept that uses DNS answers as an intermediate cache.

Image metadata and fragments represented through DNS records.

A security report describing malware exploitation of blind spots around DNS record data.

A tiny command that streams audio data through repeated DNS queries.

Machine-readable company information stored and retrieved through DNS.