Great site. If you don't mind I have feature requests, but feel free to ignore them because OSS is OSS and you shouldn't feel obligated.
1) Include a link to dnsviz.net to check on the DNSSEC status of domains. They've already done all the work and it would be a nice integration.
2) Something that I wish more DNS operators understood is the concept of shared fate between authoritative name servers. Shared fate can come in the form of same AS, same upstream, same parent domain, etc. Operators might think they have redundancy when in fact all their servers are located in the same AS, for example. If there is any way you can highlight this or show this it would be useful.
3) I didn't try looking up a phishing domain, but displaying whether a domain exists on popular block lists would be awesome.
I love your attempt at understanding all the TXT RRs that have spread across the DNS in the last 10 years. What a mess.
You're right in that this is a rabbit hole. You could spend the rest of your life building this and never actually completing it, be careful!
> 1) Include a link to dnsviz.net to check on the DNSSEC status of domains.
I use DNSViz all the time. They've done a great job of displaying the entire trail and helping debug DNSSEC issues. But it's a bit too detailed for my liking. I'm thinking about how I would add this to Wirewiki. What to show and hide by default, how to format it, etc. Adding something similar is pretty high on my list for Wirewiki.
> 2) Shared fate [...]
I do already show ASNs for A/AAAA records, but adding those to NS and MX addresses as well would be useful. I'm a bit hesitant to add more data to the overview, but a separate page that shows an analysis of shared name server resources could be useful indeed. I've added it to the list.
> 3) displaying whether a domain exists on popular block lists would be awesome.
Absolutely. Already on the list :)
> You could spend the rest of your life building this and never actually completing it, be careful!
Haha, I've already spent 5 years, and I don't mind to keep going as long as it's interesting and sustainable!
The real trick, and the reason I don't build my own NAS, is standby power usage. How much wattage will a self built Linux box draw when it's not being used? It's not easy to figure out, and it's not easy to build a NAS optimized for this.
Whereas Synology or other NAS manufacturers can tell me these numbers exactly and people have reviewed the hardware and tested it.
To me, it's a question of time and money efficiency. (Time is money.)
I can buy a NAS, whereby I pay money to enjoy someone else's previous work of figuring it out. I pay for this over and over again as my needs change and/or upgrades happen.
Or
I can build a NAS, whereby I spend time to figure it out myself. The gained knowledge that I retain in my notes and my tiny little pea brain gets to be used over and over again as needs change, and/or upgrades happen. And -- sometimes -- I even get paid to use this knowledge.
There are power meters like KWS-303L that will tell you how much manufacturers lie with their numbers.
For example my ancient tplink TL-WR842N router eats 15W standby or no, while my main box, fans, backlight, gpu, hdds and stuff -- about 80W idle.
Looking at Synology site the only power I see there is the psu rating, which is 90W for DS425. So you can expect real power consumption of about 30-40W. Which is typical for just about any NUC or a budget ATX motherboard with a low-tier AMD-something + a bunch of HDDs.
Actually the Green deal is an attempt at that. Masked as a way to save the planet, its goal is to get rid of deep dependencies like gas oil etc, which we in Europe don't have sufficiently.
The main issue is the way the transition is happening, because I see China doing exactly what we should be doing: build coal, nuclear, etc. while you build tons of solar panels or windfarms.
The self inflicting pain forced by radical ideas is what is killing Europe. We have lost the pragmatism that made Europe move at a crazy speed after WW2.
Because its not in the interest of the US that EU think that way. Thats what a lot of the trade deals that the US has imposed on the rest of the world.
Because we have lost pragmatism over the last 40 years more or less. The leading politicians like to treat people in a way as if these didn't understand what's going on. So instead of saying energy independent, they call it CO2 tax. Their fake morality is what is actually causing all this.
Radical ideology has taken over, rather than pragmatic ideas. I don't know how that happened, but I know we are paying the price for it, although EU is rich enough to do exactly what China is doing. That alone would put us in a better position.
Why can't the EFF tell people to lie? Because if you can get away with it, lying is almost always your best option. Unless there are actual real world consequences to lying like you may anger the police.
I'd imagine it is because several of the obvious options for "lying" here may violate criminal law. And also because the EFF is an civil liberties advocacy group, they want to change the law, not circumvent it.
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