---
title: "Wikipedia over DNS"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/wikipedia-over-dns-bnk7en7ds
source_url: https://dgl.cx/wikipedia-dns
type: article
source: "Lobsters"
published: 2024-03-10T18:53:48.915Z
updated: 2024-05-09T08:29:02.242Z
tags: ["backend", "dns", "perl"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Wikipedia over DNS

**[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Code written to summarize Wikipedia articles is offered over DNS instead of a web service. DNS caching improves latency and there are limitations on response size.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://dgl.cx/wikipedia-dns>

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Tags: [#backend](https://daily.dev/tags/backend), [#dns](https://daily.dev/tags/dns), [#perl](https://daily.dev/tags/perl)

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