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FTP over DNS

File Transfer Protocol traffic transported through DNS.

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Screenshot used in the talk for FTP over DNS
Screenshot used in the original talk.

FToDNS adapts FTP-style file transfer to DNS transport. The project turns the small pieces available in DNS traffic into a path for moving files.

It sits beside HTTP, IP, and VPN examples as another answer to the same question: what happens when DNS is the only usable channel?