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DNS records frozen in time. A CVS commit tag from 2002. A developer named mhealey. Internet archaeology, preserved in the global zone file for over two decades.

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1. 2002 CVS version control tag frozen in live DNS for 24 years

This TXT record contains an RCS/CVS keyword expansion string: `$Id: kcom.com,v2 17/07/2002 08:47:07 mhealey Exp $`. A developer named "mhealey" committed a DNS zone file to a code repository on 17 July 2002. The version control system automatically injected that `$Id$` metadata string before it was pushed to the DNS servers. It has been sitting there, completely untouched, for over 24 years. This is the oldest artefact we have found in the .co.uk zone.

$Id: kcom.com,v2 17/07/2002 08:47:07 mhealey Exp $
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2. ACME provisioning script piped its debug log into DNS

A backend service — almost certainly related to Let's Encrypt or an ACME SSL provisioning script — failed during execution and piped its standard debug output directly into the DNS TXT record instead of a log file. The record reads `dbg: src: ds, acme: false`. The certificate was never issued. The debug log lives on in global DNS.

dbg: src: ds, acme: false

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