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by allyt 5923 days ago
DNS is basically a huge associative array [which] gets cached at nameservers

Uhoh. This might be a dangerous meme.

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My favorite abuse of DNS is Dan Kaminsky using it to stream DNS.
Explain or link, please?
Perhaps this: http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-12/ff_kamins...

He tunnelled low-bandswith video over DNS, before finding a more serious bug in DNS.

I meant to say "stream video over DNS", as per acg's link below ... it's been a long day