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xip.name
The service was shut down on 2021-05-17 after Google marked the entire domain as “Social engineering content” since (working as intended) you could link to for example http://1.1.1.1.xip.name/ and getting redirected to http://1.1.1.1/
A simple wildcard DNS inspired by xip.io (which seems to have been shut down now)
10.0.0.1.xip.name resolves to 10.0.0.1
www.10.0.0.2.xip.name resolves to 10.0.0.2
foo.10.0.0.3.xip.name resolves to 10.0.0.3
bar.baz.10.0.0.4.xip.name resolves to 10.0.0.4
How does it work?
xip.name runs a custom Domain Name Server which extracts any IP address found in the requested domain name and sends it back in the response.
Credits
xip.name is built on top of Miek’s lovely dns package for Go.
Documentation
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Overview ¶
xip.name is a small name server which sends back any IP address found in the provided hostname.
When queried for type A, it sends back the parsed IPv4 address. In the additional section the client host:port and transport are shown.
Basic use pattern:
dig @xip.name foo.10.0.0.82.xip.name A ; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> @xip.name foo.10.0.0.82.xip.name A ; (1 server found) ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 13574 ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;foo.10.0.0.82.xip.name. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: foo.10.0.0.82.xip.name. 0 IN A 10.0.0.82 ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: xip.name. 0 IN TXT "Client: 188.126.74.76:52575 (udp)" ;; Query time: 27 msec ;; SERVER: 188.166.43.179#53(188.166.43.179) ;; WHEN: Wed Dec 31 02:55:51 2014 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 128
Initially based on the reflect example found at https://github.com/miekg/exdns
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