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Wikipedia over DNS

Wikipedia articles retrieved through DNS queries.

WikipediaTXT recordslookup

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David Leadbetter’s service exposes Wikipedia lookups through DNS. A name encodes the search target, and the result comes back in a DNS answer.

The project makes a familiar knowledge source available to a very small client. It is an early example of DNS as a text retrieval interface.

Primary source: https://dgl.cx/wikipedia-dns