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# wiki.bash-hackers.org
| :bulb: See [start.md](start.md) to get straight to business |
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The popular wiki.bash-hackers.org had its DNS expire in April 2023, with the owner seemingly being incommunicado. It looked like this domain would be in the region of €1k to purchase - ouch.
Fortunately, Archive.org has snapshotted this website, and so we can extract wiki.bash-hackers.org from archive.org's Wayback Machine.
Fortunately, archive.org has snapshotted this website, and so we can extract wiki.bash-hackers.org from archive.org's Wayback Machine.
Additionally, the web server behind wiki.bash-hackers.org is still running, for now, so we can use an entry in our `hosts` file (`/etc/hosts` on *nix, `c:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts` on Windows) that reads:
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Because the timestamp in the URL may or may not match. So we use this API call to locate genuine resources.
Because, obviously, the timestamp in the URL may or may not match. So we use this API call to validate that a desired resource exists, and if so, locate the latest available copy of it.
## Extracting the Dokuwiki Markup