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DNS NoSQL store

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

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Screenshot used in the talk for DNS NoSQL store
Screenshot used in the original talk.

Records in a DNS zone can be viewed as values reached through hierarchical keys. This experiment pushes that idea toward a generic data-store model.

The analogy is useful, but DNS has very different consistency, authority, cache, and size rules from a conventional database.