savearoundtrip: publish an HTTPS DNS record, skip a round trip
34 points by freddyb
34 points by freddyb
Turns out, my web hosting provider doesn't do H3 yet. But I can upgrade to a new server version (for free!), to try it out, which I will :). Once I'm done, I'll totally set an HTTPS DNS record. Yay :)
It seems Apple's dig is version 9.10.6, which pre-dates this record type. (They really should be shipping a newer dig than that...) Anyone have a favorite mac tool for looking at DNS?
I like to use doggo across all platforms. It’s worked out generally quite nicely for me; it’s not perfect but it goes a long way.
That's exactly the kind of thing I was hoping to find. In fact, I think I heard of it a few years back, but hadn't run into any shortcomings with dig and didn't see fit to run into it. Thanks!
I use drill from ldns installed via homebrew.
% drill -Q https savearoundtrip.com
1 . alpn=h3,h2 ipv4hint=104.21.20.43,172.67.191.84 ech=AEX+DQBBzwAgACAdG3AfYFkusczSXA/kky1bgK67QViv5mNKyS3ITnrWbAAEAAEAAQASY2xvdWRmbGFyZS1lY2guY29tAAA= ipv6hint=2606:4700:3030::ac43:bf54,2606:4700:3037::6815:142b
Nice. It looks like they've wound down development on ldns and drill as of sometime in 2020, but it's new enough to have caught the standard referenced in this post (unlike apple's bundled dig) and the output in the long form matches dig near-exactly, AFAICT. That's handy.
Having an HTTPS RR will also make sure that all clients which read those connect securely. Even if they don't support quic.
Why is this tagged vibecoding?
The CSS looks like it could maybe be from an LLM and that's pretty much it.
The original commit was definitely via LLM, https://github.com/mxinden-bot/savearoundtrip/commit/dece57c340aa3b8fda3d7bab68e5e5ddbcc10291.
Also it feels tedious. About 1700 words with lots of repetition and useless stuff and stupid visualisations, making the full-with page over 7300px long. It would be significantly better reduced to perhaps 500 words, two diagrams, and a total length under 2000px.
Good catch.
The website also got me LLM-vibes but it was below my threshold nonetheless. TBH the content felt pretty appropriate wrt the audience I'd expect. It's also very much in line with other similar websites in the past (not my cup of tea).
Anyway, the troubles with the vibecoding tag here have already been debated a lot on this website.