Any specifics on that one?
One nice effect is if you're using mDNS, whenever you want to download a piece of content, the first peers to respond with a DNS result will be those on your LAN. Indeed, you might have an approach of first trying mDNS, waiting to see if you get any replies, and then go to global DNS. I'm sure there are problems with the idea; care to share them? -david _____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of EdPimentl Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2007 9:12 PM To: theory and practice of decentralized computer networks Subject: Re: [p2p-hackers] p2p, mDNS and scaling Really bad idea. -E On 6/17/07, David Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ah, heh, I was actually thinking along exactly the opposite lines. Rather than using a DHT to replace DNS, I was thinking of just using DNS to replace the DHT: Normally, every node would register itself in some DHT such that it can be located. I'm suggesting that every node just register itself using dynamic DNS for location via the internet (or using mDNS for location via a disconnected LAN), and then there's no need for the DHT (at least, not for resolving peer names to IPs). Though now that I think of it... you could also do some really crazy shit by having a domain name like: <contenthash>.crazyshit.com Then, using standard dynamic DNS protocols, if you have a piece of content you just add yourself to the round-robin IP pool associated with that domain name. To get a list of all clients with the content, just do a standard DNS lookup on the domain. All the standard DNS infrastructure for replicated caching kicks in as normal. Anyway, the more I learn about DNS, the more I like it. It's one of the few systems that is truly decentralized at not only a technical infrastructure level, but also the legal/political level. -david > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:p2p-hackers- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alen Peacock > Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2007 4:24 PM > To: theory and practice of decentralized computer networks > Subject: Re: [p2p-hackers] p2p, mDNS and scaling > > On 6/17/07, David Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Indeed, I think mDNS + dynamic DNS is the recipe for a really > interesting, > > completely decentralized naming system that works seamlessly both on and > off > > the internet: > > Some previous work on Semantic Free Referencing (SFR) and DNS might > be of interest: "Untangling the Web from DNS" > http://nms.csail.mit.edu/papers/sfr-nsdi04.html > > I'm not sure if this line of research ended up leading anywhere in > the end, but thought the reference (if you hadn't already seen it) > might be useful. > > Alen > _______________________________________________ > p2p-hackers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
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