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Re:HTML over DNS: Serving Blog Content over DNS by sonicggg on Thursday August 19, 2021 @01:58AM (#28230817)
What's the point though? I can think maybe of reduced latency, but then you usually have the DNS already cached locally. And that takes me to a second point, won't you run into problems delivering content updates, given that clients will most likely cache DNS entries?
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Re:HTML over DNS: Serving Blog Content over DNS by tyingq on Thursday August 19, 2021 @02:04AM (#28230855)
Highly distributed global CDN for free. You can use a short TTL, though there are lots of misbehaving DNS servers around cache timeouts. "Fetch with DoH" kinda ruins the party, but browsers can't do UDP or non-HTTP TCP.
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Re:HTML over DNS: Serving Blog Content over DNS by stayanon1 on Thursday August 19, 2021 @02:05AM (#28230863)
In my mind this is a neat proof-of-concept that shows how you can serve content through some absurd method (in this case serving HTML over DNS). It may not have "a point" beyond just being an example of what's possible!
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Re:HTML over DNS: Serving Blog Content over DNS by thewakalix on Thursday August 19, 2021 @02:00AM (#28230832)
Probably "because it's there".
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Re:HTML over DNS: Serving Blog Content over DNS by jacobkiers on Thursday August 19, 2021 @02:25AM (#28230969)
Yes, that's the case indeed.
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