dns-over-wikipedia VS trust-dns

Hi all,

I wanted to build something small over the weekend so I wrote Wikimark, a social bookmarking website powered by Wikidata.

You might remember DNS over Wikipedia[0]: it's a browser extension that uses Wikipedia to find the latest URL of a given website and redirects you there. Wikimark is similar. You give it a name that the website is commonly known as (e.g., "academic-torrents"), and it finds and redirects you to the latest URL of that website. The difference is, you don't need to install anything at all to use Wikimark and it still runs in your browser.

Try it:

https://academic-torrents.wikimark.net

I'll be around to answer your questions!

―Bora

Code: https://github.com/boramalper/wikimark

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[0] https://github.com/aaronjanse/dns-over-wikipedia

Previous submissions:

DNS over Wikipedia - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40008383 - Apr 2024 (82 comments)

DNS over Wikipedia - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33830759 - Dec 2022 (159 comments)

Show HN: DNS over Wikipedia - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22790425 - April 2020 (104 comments)

> > 9edda054-232f on Dec 2, 2022 <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33835716>:

> > Why don't just buy a domain like DNSOver.Wiki so people can just scihub.dnsover.wiki without installing the browser extension..

> aryamaan on Dec 2, 2022 <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33838116>:

> it's actually a clever idea

Somebody created dns-over-wikipeda for this:

https://github.com/aaronjanse/dns-over-wikipedia

If you don't know what is Trust-DNS / Hickory DNS, this seems to be the repo: https://github.com/bluejekyll/trust-dns

IO is not a part of the async runtime contract (I don't know if this is good or bad), and Tokio & futures famously have different `Async{Read,Write}` traits. I once had to do this [0] to adapt between them.

This means that any crate that uses IO will be bound to a limited number of Runtimes. Everything being Tokio-only is pretty bad (though Tokio itself is great), but here we are...

[0] https://github.com/bluejekyll/trust-dns/pull/1373#issuecomme...

I need a cert.pem and privkey.pem for https://github.com/bluejekyll/trust-dns but even using the extractor to get a cert.pem and privkey.pem from the acme.json file it seems invalid.

You might be interested in Trust DNS - "A Rust based DNS client, server, and Resolver, built to be safe and secure from the ground up."

It looks like you need to reach for a separate crate for that: https://github.com/bluejekyll/trust-dns/blob/7dcb7b983f5407d95d93b800af13caeee975aaa8/crates/async-std-resolver/src/lib.rs

You might be interested in new alternative to dig called dns https://github.com/bluejekyll/trust-dns/blob/main/util/src/dns.rs . I found out about it from https://twitter.com/benj_fry/status/1513269287229657091

I've found the Trust-DNS Resolver crate and it does the job! Now the binary seems to not use any dynamic library to look up the ip of a host.