[ktpsns]

To clarify, a good title would be "Loading Doom entirely from DNS records"

Neither one plays Doom over DNS nor is the first paragraph in the README correct, because DNS is only abused for storage, not for computing/processing/executing instructions:

> At some point, a reasonable person asked "DNS resolves names to IP addresses, what else can it do?" The answer, apparently, is run DOOM.

[drob518]

Yup. A better title might be “Author discovers data can be stored in DNS TXT records which were created to store data.”

[deathanatos]

Data can be stored in A records, too, just less efficiently.

(Or AAAA, or CNAME, or…)

[uuddlrlrbaba]

Or how about "pedantic HN users making comments about titles"

[DJBunnies]

And the cycle won't be complete without such a meta "analysis."

[akdev1l]

Also we could probably achieve this by using dnsfs and regular doom install

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/dns-filesystem-true-cloud-st...

[tracker1]

Well, there are DNS tunneling projects, so I would suspect you could displace the network support in DOOM with a DNS based protocol.

[b112]

You make me wonder if it is possible. All you need to do is to programmatically change bits, and you have compute. Some cache monkeying or somethong.

Of course, I imagine it would be incredibly slow.

[testaccount28]

> All you need to do is to programmatically change bits, and you have compute.

all you need is to rapidly push off one foot and land on the other, and you have running.