Wikipedia over DNS (2008)

Yes, though clunky. When I try the example:

  % host -t txt foo.wp.dg.cx

it looks like the "foo" in the domain name gets converted to FOO, then goes to the Wikipedia entry for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOO which is redirected to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery_observer#British_For..., causing host to respond with text from the image caption:

  foo.wp.dg.cx descriptive text "thumb|240px|A U.S. Marine artillery
  forward observer in a tree to get a better view of the battlefield in
  1942.]thumb|240px|British and French artillery observers of Langemarck
  (1917)|Battle of Langemarck, 1917] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
  Artillery_obse" "rver"

That's not what the I (or the original author) expected.

It does handle Greenland correctly, so yes, it does work!

  % host -t txt greenland.wp.dg.cx | fold
  greenland.wp.dg.cx descriptive text "Greenland (\"Land of the Kalaallit\"; ) is
  an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic
  and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiograph
  ically a part of the continent of North America, Green" "land has been political
  ly and culturally associated with Europe (specifically Norway and later Denmark)
  for more than a... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland"

On the other hand, Wikipedia redirects "cosine" to "sine and cosine", but host reports:

  % host -t txt cosine.wp.dg.cx
  Host cosine.wp.dg.cx not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

one of the great benefits of perl is that it still works

or, in this case, a perl4 developer (though obviously in 02008 he was writing in perl5, not perl4)

wait, what now?

So i can get Wikipedia over Wikipedia?