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A regular proxy on port 53 might work? Is it necessary to actually use DNS?
Otherwise there's https://github.com/yarrick/iodine
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Actually I turned DNS into a database ;)
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dns.toys
A DNS server that offers useful utilities and services over the DNS protocol. Weather, world time, unit conversion etc.
It's always amusing to see DNS "hackery"[1] like this, and always makes me go back to DNS Toys (https://www.dns.toys/), which generated a huge discussion on HN a year ago [2]
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[1] well, it's not really hackery if you're being pedantic, since it's doing what the spec allows it to do
[2] DNS Toys (946 points): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31704789