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sofixa

What do you mean turned off?

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When using an external service like this one, you have no guarantee:

- this service will last forever

- this service won't be acquired by someone else with evil intention and will never lie

Do not use this service. It has the power to steal your traffic.

It’s also possible to run it yourself, as I point out elsewhere in the thread (complete with the Lua script to run the code).

To summarize:

  git clone https://git.sr.ht/~samiam/MaraDNS
  cd MaraDNS/deadwood-github/tools/coLunacyDNS
  make
  sudo cp coLunacyDNS /usr/local/bin

And the script to do the name-to-IP conversion is one of the examples included in the docs:

https://github.com/samboy/MaraDNS/blob/master/deadwood-githu...

It's not as if it's built into the protocol, operated decentrally and guaranteed to work. Someone generously operates the service. At least that's what I assume GP meant.

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