Post by @pgl@infosec.exchange

2026-09-28 17:31 UTC

I made a thing: it's called the DNS Museum, and it's because I kept joking at the start of my talk, "Bizarre and Unusual Uses of DNS" that a lot of the things weren't alive anymore - so it was more like a museum of DNS and I was the curator. Anyway, I'm on holiday right now so I finally got around to doing something about that joke. Consider this a first draft, I have way more notes about other things to add at some point. It's also a little bland, but one thing I'm not is a designer. Let me know about any issues - AI was used to help create the site, but of course I'm responsible for any mistakes. It's on GitHub too, so PRs are welcome. https://dns.museum

Replies (4)

@atax1a@infosec.exchange 2026-09-28 19:19

@pgl@infosec.exchange incredible that you're asking for volunteers to remediate your slop for you, when you could have simply not used slop to begin with

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@notecharlie@social.bigcavemaps.com 2026-09-28 19:26

@pgl@infosec.exchange hesiod is definitely on the list of things to add. Not only is it using the DNS as a directory service (instead of ldap), but it's one of only 3 DNS classes that exist (the others being the internet class and the chaos class). DNS Class will come in handy one day, but no-one yet knows when that day is, because no-one actually wants to deal with parallel namespaces.

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@gregr@mamot.fr 2026-09-28 18:02

@pgl@infosec.exchange did you heard of Doom over DNS? https://blog.rice.is/post/doom-over-dns/ https://github.com/resumex/doom-over-dns

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@tonyg@pubsub.leastfixedpoint.com 2026-09-28 20:23

@pgl@infosec.exchange A candidate exhibit: https://eighty-twenty.org/2023/07/31/dns-as-a-cdn

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