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Re:HTML over DNS: Serving Blog Content over DNS by PinguTS on Thursday August 19, 2021 @03:34AM (#28231337)
Wondering why I can't query the DNS directly.

  $ dig posts-2021-08-17-serving-blog-content-over-dns-md.hod.experiments.jacobkiers.net TXT
  
  ; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> posts-2021-08-17-serving-blog-content-over-dns-md.hod.experiments.jacobkiers.net TXT
  ;; global options: +cmd
  ;; Got answer:
  ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 49067
  ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
  
  ;; QUESTION SECTION:
  ;posts-2021-08-17-serving-blog-content-over-dns-md.hod.experiments.jacobkiers.net. IN TXT
  
  ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
  hod.experiments.jacobkiers.net. 292 IN SOA home.kie.rs. postmaster.kie.rs. 2021081903 3600 900 604800 3600
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Re:HTML over DNS: Serving Blog Content over DNS by jacobkiers on Thursday August 19, 2021 @03:38AM (#28231354)
That's weird, it should work. I'll investigate when I get home.
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Re:HTML over DNS: Serving Blog Content over DNS by PinguTS on Thursday August 19, 2021 @03:51AM (#28231431)
Just tried it again, now it works like magic. Don't know what was wrong.
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Re:HTML over DNS: Serving Blog Content over DNS by bqmjjx0kac on Thursday August 19, 2021 @08:27AM (#28232928)
Spooky, maybe you were MITMed.
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Re:HTML over DNS: Serving Blog Content over DNS by IncRnd on Thursday August 19, 2021 @07:22AM (#28232512)
You can look at this line.

> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

That says that the DNS server didn't answer - for whatever reason - despite the address of that server being determined. It could have been a form of HN's "hug of death" where the website temporarily goes down when many people start to view it in a short period of time.

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Re:HTML over DNS: Serving Blog Content over DNS by masklinn on Thursday August 19, 2021 @03:35AM (#28231342)
Apparently uses DoH. I don't think dig(1) talks DoH, you'd have to use curl or kdig.
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Re:HTML over DNS: Serving Blog Content over DNS by PinguTS on Thursday August 19, 2021 @03:49AM (#28231416)
DNS is DNS. You should be able to talk to the NS with DNS over UDP, TCP, or HTTP(s). The protocol used should not matter. The information received should be always the same.
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Re:HTML over DNS: Serving Blog Content over DNS by ignoramous on Thursday August 19, 2021 @05:05AM (#28231776)
...in an ideal world
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