DNS Museum · 49 entries
Categories
Every entry, grouped by the way DNS is being used.
Traceroutes
7 entries- American Pie tracerouteA traceroute that follows the verses of American Pie.
- Bad Horse tracerouteA traceroute that delivers a message from Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog.
- Christmas tracerouteA seasonal traceroute that returns a repeated Christmas greeting.
- Euro 2020 tracerouteA football-themed route that makes the trip to a host a small spectacle.
- IPv6 hop expansionA traceroute extension that uses IPv6 to reveal more of a path.
- Singing tracerouteA route that delivers song lyrics through DNS names, including a seasonal version.
- Star Wars tracerouteA route to beagle.net that turned an ordinary network diagnostic into a space opera.
DNS over…
10 entries- DNS over DONUTSDNS carried over normal, unencrypted TCP streams.
- DNS over IRCDynamic DNS updates carried through Internet Relay Chat.
- DNS over MastodonA Mastodon-based DNS service that uses DNSSEC authentication.
- DNS over phoneA service for calling a recursive DNS resolver by telephone.
- DNS over SignalA Signal service that shows a DNS query and answer as a secure-message conversation.
- DNS over SMSA text-message exchange used as a transport for DNS queries and replies.
- DNS over TelegramA chat bot that resolves DNS questions from a messaging conversation.
- DNS over TwitterA short-lived resolver interface built around a social-media account.
- DNS over XMPPA deferred XMPP extension for DNS queries and responses.
- DNS pingA GitHub project that turns a ping-style request into a DNS interaction.
Tools and toys
15 entries- Blogging via DNSBlog posts published as TXT records.
- DNS calculatorArithmetic results returned from DNS queries.
- DNS drink recipesA general-purpose dynamic DNS server used to look up cocktail recipes.
- DNS geocachingA cache description retrieved from a carefully formed DNS query.
- DNS text adventureA text adventure played through DNS queries and round-robin answers.
- DNS TXT toysA set of small DNS TXT-record experiments by B’ad Samurai.
- DNS weatherWeather information delivered as DNS answers through the Drink service.
- dns.toysA group of small command-line services exposed through DNS.
- Google DNS cartoonA comic about Google focusing on its public DNS server.
- HTML over DNSA web page whose contents are fetched from DNS rather than from the web server that frames it.
- IP to ASNAn IP address to autonomous-system lookup delivered through DNS.
- ISS locationThe International Space Station’s position returned in DNS LOC records.
- My IP over DNSA resolver query that reports the client address it sees.
- Wikipedia over DNSWikipedia articles retrieved through DNS queries.
- Wordle over DNSA Wordle-style game played entirely through DNS queries.
Tunnelling
6 entries- DNS tunnellingData moved through DNS queries and answers instead of its usual transport.
- dnscat2A DNS tunnelling tool that makes traffic resemble ordinary DNS requests.
- FTP over DNSFile Transfer Protocol traffic transported through DNS.
- HTTP over DNSA proof of concept that carries HTTP requests in DNS labels and reconstructs them at a server.
- IP over DNSAn IPv4 tunnel that carries IP traffic through DNS queries and answers.
- VPN over DNSA tunnel design that places VPN traffic inside DNS transport.
Other things
11 entries- AI chatbot over DNSA chatbot interface designed to work through DNS while offline from the usual web.
- BIMI recordsBrand indicators for email published in DNS TXT records.
- CatDNSA DNS server that resolves names to cats.
- DNS configuration managementRoute 53 used as a store for application configuration.
- DNS key-value storeA public interface for storing and retrieving values from a DNS domain.
- DNS NoSQL storeA proof of concept that treats DNS as a distributed key-value data store.
- DNSFS cacheA filesystem-style concept that uses DNS answers as an intermediate cache.
- Images in DNSImage metadata and fragments represented through DNS records.
- Malware in DNS recordsA security report describing malware exploitation of blind spots around DNS record data.
- MP3 over DNSA tiny command that streams audio data through repeated DNS queries.
- NUM contacts databaseMachine-readable company information stored and retrieved through DNS.