peterhellberg / xip.name

Simple wildcard DNS inspired by xip.io

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.