Show HN: File distribution over DNS: (ab)using DNS as a CDN

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  • iodine

    Official git repo for iodine dns tunnel

  • There's also iodine, a C program that tunnels IPv4 packets over DNS. Useful for bypassing captive portals on wifi, since DNS usually isn't restricted.

    https://github.com/yarrick/iodine

    Regarding cloudflare DNS over HTTPS: It could be that it tries to server data encoded as JSON, which is impossible in JSON. Some control characters and bytes 128-255 cannot be represented as JSON strings.

  • api.distributed.press

  • I think the obvious match here is how IPFS can use a dnslink TXT file to point to the content-addressable top of an IPFS-distributed static web https://docs.ipfs.tech/concepts/dnslink/ . This is how a lot of dweb/web3 websites maintain and advertise a non-http mirror. It works out of the box for sites served using https://distributed.press/ (non-commercial, open source) or https://fleek.co/ (hosted).

    If you use Brave, or have the IPFS browser extension, you can access sites like https://ffdweb.org/ as an option, or preferentially.

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