dns

With Route 53 Files, it becomes possible to use standard UNIX software to edit your DNS without needing any additional steps.

Need I say more? Colin Percival managed to create a pleasant file-based interface for Route53. Their blog post about it even reads like an actual AWS blog. Brilliant.

Lina writes about about how E.164 international phone numbers can be mapped to a domain number under e164.arpa. They were able to find a disused nameserver used for the country codes and the challenge to report this issue ensues.

I discovered this through HackerNews.