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Doom over DNS

Doom encoded into TXT records

Doom

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Screenshot used in the talk for Doom over DNS
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From the GitHub repo:

"DNS TXT records can hold arbitrary text. Cloudflare will serve them globally, for free, cached at the edge, to anyone who asks. They are not a file storage system. They were not designed to be a file storage system. Nobody at the IETF was thinking about them being used as a file storage system when they wrote RFC 1035. And yet here we are.This project compresses the entirety of shareware DOOM, splits it into ~1,964 DNS TXT records across a single Cloudflare zone, and plays it back at runtime using nothing but a PowerShell script and public DNS queries. The WAD file never touches disk and the .NET game engine DLLs are loaded directly into memory."

Primary source: https://github.com/resumex/doom-over-dns