we made a globally distributed DNS network for shits and giggles (38c3)

DNS infrastructure is a bespoke pile of interconnected "standards", and its management is often treated as an afterthought. With Project SERVFAIL we aim to change that perception, providing both general docs and a community-run alternative to commercial nameservers - all of which while staying exceedingly *silly*. What started as a joke shitpost on fedi ended up with us spending multiple weeks hacking on everything DNS: from infra setups, through automating DNSSEC deployments, up to writing a fully custom zone edit website. With [Project SERVFAIL](https://beta.servfail.network), we set out to discover what we could do better than the status quo. With barely any progress in the past 15 years, the NS provider field has seemingly stagnated. We set out to change that - and while SERVFAIL is still a Work in Progress, we're already at a point where we have a lot to share: stories of horror, upstream negligence, but also of hope and wonder for the future. All of this while still bringing a vibe that wouldn't let you mistake us for for an enterprise - and for free, OSS, of course. Licensed to the public under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 about this event: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2024/hub/event/we-made-a-globally-distributed-dns-network-for-shits-and-giggles/