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by andrewcooke 6009 days ago
i'm surprised that you don't dynamically extend your database if you have a miss. did you try that? if so, i'm curious why it didn't work out.
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Because we can't run DNS queries inside Google App Engine. Instead, I query the DNS results from my home computer and feed them into the datastore using remote_api.
ah, ok (thanks). did you see the recent post here about someone exposing dns over http? although i have no idea if you could call that either...