Wednesday 13 April 2011

DNS hacks with added value

The internet's name resolution system is more flexible than many think. Some hacks currently demonstrate some nice tricks with Twitter and DNS. In one, a service from any.io queries Twitter through DNS. For example, the command


host -t txt codepope.twitter.any.io will retrieve the most recent status tweet from the user codepope. The trick is simple. The answer to the DNS query is returned as

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