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Re:DNSFS – Store files in others' DNS resolver caches by shredwheat on Friday January 12, 2018 @01:05PM (#16134870)
Super fun article. I also like to see a "real" implementation of crazy ideas like this.

Can anyone confirm if the Microsoft DNS servers default to caching an unlimited amount of data? The article claims "Unlimited??" as the default for these systems. Eyeballing the pie chart looks like 20% of the servers are running Microsoft, which could provide quite a lot of storage.

Re:DNSFS – Store files in others' DNS resolver caches by otakucode on Friday January 12, 2018 @10:24PM (#16138116)
Please don't. There's a perfectly lovely naturally emerged digital life form living in the spaces in between on the Internet, and this would threaten their habitat. Sure they haven't figured out we exist yet, and are certainly a long way from being able to communicate with us, but they seem kind to one another and I'd hate to see their evolution displaced.
Re:DNSFS – Store files in others' DNS resolver caches by voidlogic on Friday January 12, 2018 @01:56PM (#16135309)
Even unlimited is bound by memory/storage with probably an LRU eviction scheme. So unless your stored data is hot, or their storage is very large, it might not stay around long.
Re:DNSFS – Store files in others' DNS resolver caches by AdamJacobMuller on Saturday January 13, 2018 @12:32AM (#16138407)
need a background worker that periodically reads all data to keep things in cache (like a raid or SSD background check).