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Mon, 14 Mar 2016 21:31:01 +0000

So I did fork Caddy, and converted it into something that almost resembles a DNS server.

This is Caddy DNS (need an name!) without any configuration, i.e. an empty Caddyfile. It will then fallback and be a reflection server (couldn’t think of something better…). It will respond to queries that ask for who.<name> and will respond with your IP, port and transport.

So the first light query and answer would be:

dig @localhost -p 1053 A who.miek.nl

;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 62561
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;who.miek.nl.			IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
who.miek.nl.		0	IN	AAAA	::1

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
who.miek.nl.		0	IN	TXT	"Port: 1234 (udp)"

And slightly later with the port number properly fixed:

Porting on Miek Gieben

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