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Wikipedia over DNS (2008)

74 points by pabs3 3y ago

esafak 3y ago
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- brookst 3y ago
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  - yogorenapan 3y ago
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- dfee 3y ago
  I read the article and the slides. No where was it mentioned that this was to circumvent censorship. A sibling comment to this one is about Florida (though, the author appears to be in London). But, the only places I’ve experienced Wikipedia being blocked is on airplanes (well, unless you pay, everything is blocked). Why do you think this is about censorship?
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colega 3y ago
"Associative array": how to identify a PHP developer :D
- kragen 3y ago
  or, in this case, a perl4 developer (though obviously in 02008 he was writing in perl5, not perl4)
- deleted 3y ago
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andix 3y ago
Sadly it doesn't support paging :D
- deleted 3y ago
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iknowbettah 3y ago
DNS over Wikipedia is a thing too
- deleted 3y ago
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- booi 3y ago
  wait, what now?
- croes 3y ago
  So i can get Wikipedia over Wikipedia?
pabs3 3y ago
This still works!
- eesmith 3y ago
  Yes, though clunky. When I try the example: % host -t txt foo.wp.dg.cx it looks like the "foo" in the domain name gets converted to FOO, then goes to the Wikipedia entry for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOO which is redirected to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery_observer#British_Forward_Observation_Officer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery_observer#British_For..., causing host to respond with text from the image caption: foo.wp.dg.cx descriptive text "thumb|240px|A U.S. Marine artillery forward observer in a tree to get a better view of the battlefield in 1942.]thumb|240px|British and French artillery observers of Langemarck (1917)|Battle of Langemarck, 1917] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Artillery_obse" "rver" That's not what the I (or the original author) expected. It does handle Greenland correctly, so yes, it does work! % host -t txt greenland.wp.dg.cx | fold greenland.wp.dg.cx descriptive text "Greenland (\"Land of the Kalaallit\"; ) is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiograph ically a part of the continent of North America, Green" "land has been political ly and culturally associated with Europe (specifically Norway and later Denmark) for more than a... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland" On the other hand, Wikipedia redirects "cosine" to "sine and cosine", but host reports: % host -t txt cosine.wp.dg.cx Host cosine.wp.dg.cx not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
  - dgl 3y ago
    While the serving code still works the code to download Wikipedia dumps and summarise them has bitrotted. The database is circa 2013, so you’re exploring a nearly 11 year old summary of Wikipedia!
    - eesmith 3y ago
      I see what you mean - the quoted "Greenland" text does not match the current form but does match the one ca. 2013. It looks like FOO (all caps) redirected to Forward Observation Officer on July 2008‎, says https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=FOO&action=history https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=FOO&action=histor... so there was a narrow window when your "foo" example worked as described, before you updated the dump to the then-new redirect.

74 points by pabs3 3y ago

esafak 3y ago

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brookst 3y ago
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- yogorenapan 3y ago
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dfee 3y ago
I read the article and the slides. No where was it mentioned that this was to circumvent censorship. A sibling comment to this one is about Florida (though, the author appears to be in London). But, the only places I’ve experienced Wikipedia being blocked is on airplanes (well, unless you pay, everything is blocked). Why do you think this is about censorship?
deleted 3y ago
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colega 3y ago

"Associative array": how to identify a PHP developer :D

kragen 3y ago
or, in this case, a perl4 developer (though obviously in 02008 he was writing in perl5, not perl4)
deleted 3y ago
[deleted]

andix 3y ago

Sadly it doesn't support paging :D

deleted 3y ago
[deleted]

iknowbettah 3y ago

DNS over Wikipedia is a thing too

deleted 3y ago
[deleted]
booi 3y ago
wait, what now?
croes 3y ago
So i can get Wikipedia over Wikipedia?

pabs3 3y ago

This still works!

eesmith 3y ago
Yes, though clunky. When I try the example: % host -t txt foo.wp.dg.cx it looks like the "foo" in the domain name gets converted to FOO, then goes to the Wikipedia entry for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOO which is redirected to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery_observer#British_Forward_Observation_Officer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery_observer#British_For..., causing host to respond with text from the image caption: foo.wp.dg.cx descriptive text "thumb|240px|A U.S. Marine artillery forward observer in a tree to get a better view of the battlefield in 1942.]thumb|240px|British and French artillery observers of Langemarck (1917)|Battle of Langemarck, 1917] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Artillery_obse" "rver" That's not what the I (or the original author) expected. It does handle Greenland correctly, so yes, it does work! % host -t txt greenland.wp.dg.cx | fold greenland.wp.dg.cx descriptive text "Greenland (\"Land of the Kalaallit\"; ) is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiograph ically a part of the continent of North America, Green" "land has been political ly and culturally associated with Europe (specifically Norway and later Denmark) for more than a... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland" On the other hand, Wikipedia redirects "cosine" to "sine and cosine", but host reports: % host -t txt cosine.wp.dg.cx Host cosine.wp.dg.cx not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
- dgl 3y ago
  While the serving code still works the code to download Wikipedia dumps and summarise them has bitrotted. The database is circa 2013, so you’re exploring a nearly 11 year old summary of Wikipedia!
  - eesmith 3y ago
    I see what you mean - the quoted "Greenland" text does not match the current form but does match the one ca. 2013. It looks like FOO (all caps) redirected to Forward Observation Officer on July 2008‎, says https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=FOO&action=history https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=FOO&action=histor... so there was a narrow window when your "foo" example worked as described, before you updated the dump to the then-new redirect.