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DNSGlobe – Rust TUI to watch DNS propagate around the world

https://github.com/514-labs/dnsglobe
10•Callicles•1h ago

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teddyh•59m ago
The myth of DNS “propagation” needs to die. Changed DNS entries do not “propagate”. The old cached DNS entries in DNS resolvers simply expire, in an arbitrary order. DNS resolvers are not linked geographically; there is no “propagation”.

If this tool was querying a list of widely-used public (and/or private) DNS resolvers, it might be useful. But pretending that DNS entries propagate geographically does not do anyone any favors.

Callicles•44m ago
That's what the tool is doing - querying a bunch of public resolvers around the world to see the state of what they resolve to. Since end users usually use DNS servers close to their location, this gives an idea, around the world, of who sees what.

Agreed, this is a cache that expires and refreshes from the source DNS server. It just looks like a virus that propagates when the cache expires.

teddyh•41m ago
> It just looks like a virus that propagates when the cache expires.

No it does not. The changes do not happen geographically. There is no geographical connection whatsoever. Calling the tool “DNSGlobe”, and displaying a map, only further reinforces the myth.

robohoe•42m ago
Aren’t there websites already that check global DNS servers to check TTL expiry of DNS records?
teddyh•35m ago
There are many; I often use <https://dnschecker.org/>
Callicles•10m ago
Yeah, I used to use https://www.whatsmydns.net/. I wanted it in the terminal without ads.
OptionOfT•5m ago
Vibe-coded. Sorry.

https://github.com/514-labs/dnsglobe/blob/c29802162636832e88...

You take the `other`, do a `to_string()` on it, which creates a String representation. Then you pass a reference to that String, and, in the case it doesn't contain `time out` or `timeout` or `refused`, the reference gets turned AGAIN into a String (i.e. new allocation), truncated to 48, and then returned.

There is no check whether that the character at the 48th byte is a character boundary.

Add to that the fact that this is a Rust project with the oldest commit created yesterday and it is using the 2021 edition.

Be better.

Is it true about the Terms of Service of AI's?

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