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Tools and toys

DNS weather

Weather information delivered as DNS answers through the Drink service.

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Screenshot used in the talk for DNS weather
Screenshot used in the original talk.

Live data can be made queryable through a DNS label. This service used the same engine as the drink example and returned a compact weather report.

The mechanism illustrates a recurring museum theme: DNS as an interface for small, read-mostly datasets.