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Gateway to DNS

1. Stephane Bortzmeyer (stephane (a) sources.org)

Highly experimental, here is a Gemini-to-DNS gateway. Just add a
domain name to gemini://dns.gemini.bortzmeyer.org:1953/ and you'll get
the answer as a nice gemtext. Most of the time, the answers are links
that you can follow (name-to-address, address-to-name, etc). You can
also add the type (MX, NS, LOC, etc) after the domain name and a
slash.

Examples of interesting requests:

=> gemini://dns.gemini.bortzmeyer.org:1953/gemini.circumlunar.space IP 
addresses of the reference site

=> gemini://dns.gemini.bortzmeyer.org:1953/cl/NS Name servers of the 
chilean top-level domain

=> gemini://dns.gemini.bortzmeyer.org:1953/protonmail.com/MX Email servers of ProtonMail

=> gemini://dns.gemini.bortzmeyer.org:1953/outlook.com/TXT Microsoft loves TXT records

=> gemini://dns.gemini.bortzmeyer.org:1953/www.potamochère.fr Of course, 
it works with IDNs (domain names in Unicode)

=> gemini://dns.gemini.bortzmeyer.org:1953/34000.cp.bortzmeyer.fr/LOC 
Location of cities in France from their zip code (here 34000)

=> gemini://dns.gemini.bortzmeyer.org:1953/76100.cp.bortzmeyer.fr/URI The 
same, as an OpenStreetMap URI

At this time, I'm not sure it will be maintained. Advices welcome.

Sorry for the non-standard port, but I did not find yet a way to make
SCGI work on gemserv so I had to install a stargrazer next to the main
server (and stargrazer does not allow me to use my Let's Encrypt
certificate, hence the self-signed certificate).

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2. Jonathan McHugh (indieterminacy (a) libre.brussels)

Hello all,

Some possible Belgian locations for Gemini presentations are below:

# HSBXL
On the 18th September Hackerspace Brussels will be hosting Software Freedom Day
=> https://hsbxl.be/events [Specific stub to be added]
=> https://www.softwarefreedomday.org/

Feel free to message hsbxl@lists.hsbxl.be (the open mailing list), with 
the subject title 'Software Freedom Day' should you want to propose a 
talk. Otherwise contact me privately.

If there is enough momentum by the Gemini community I could compere an 
event nearby that, exclusively for us - say a day  before or after.

# Hackerspace.Ghent
The Newline hacker conference (now in its 10th year) is taking place on 
3rd, 4th and 5th September

The program and participatory information is below:
=> https://hackerspace.gent/landing/newline.php

# Other suggestions
?

Kind regards,


Jonathan McHugh

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indieterminacy@libre.brussels

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3. Stephane Bortzmeyer (stephane (a) sources.org)

On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 06:13:59PM +0200,
 Stephane Bortzmeyer <stephane@sources.org> wrote 
 a message of 29 lines which said:

> Just add a domain name to gemini://dns.gemini.bortzmeyer.org:1953/

With the help of Ben Aaron Goldberg, I solved the SCGI issues so it is
now on a standard port. The new URL prefix is now:

gemini://gemini.bortzmeyer.org/dns

Examples of interesting requests:
 
=> gemini://gemini.bortzmeyer.org/dns/gemini.circumlunar.space IP 
addresses of the reference site
 
=> gemini://gemini.bortzmeyer.org/dns/cl/NS Name servers of the chilean top-level domain
 
=> gemini://gemini.bortzmeyer.org/dns/protonmail.com/MX Email servers of ProtonMail
 
=> gemini://gemini.bortzmeyer.org/dns/outlook.com/TXT Microsoft loves TXT records
 
=> gemini://gemini.bortzmeyer.org/dns/www.potamochère.fr Of course, it 
works with IDNs (domain names in Unicode)
 
=> gemini://gemini.bortzmeyer.org/dns/34000.cp.bortzmeyer.fr/LOC Location 
of cities in France from their zip code (here 34000)

=> gemini://gemini.bortzmeyer.org/dns/76100.cp.bortzmeyer.fr/URI The same, 
as an OpenStreetMap URI

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