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Continuing the Distributed DNS System
bs0d3 writes "Last year, piratebay co-founder Peter Sunde gathered coders to begin a decentralized dns system. This is a direct result of the increasing control which the US government has over ICANN. The project is called P2P-DNS and according to the project's wiki, this is how the project is described: 'P2P-DNS is a community project that will free internet users from imperial control of DNS by ICANN. In order to prevent unjust prosecution or denial of service, P2P-DNS will operate as a distributed and less centralized service hosted by the users of DNS. Today the project continues, barely. A majority of interest shifted to namecoin once the idea was realized, but coder Caleb James DeLisle continues on the first project. So far he has DHT nodes and routers worked out, and awaits help on his IRC channel whenever volunteers are willing to join."
this doesn't sound very secure.
I know they are the "pirate party", but there needs to be some way to protect trademarks. As much as I like the dark underbelly of the internet, I also like being able to use online banking and such without having to remember something like the_REAL_bank_of_america.com
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What kind of genius runs his webservers on port 82? Thanks, now a fifth of the readers can't see it due to firewalls.
Don't worry, I'm sure the U.S. will just declare this a terrorist movement and start actively blocking all alternative DNS servers by IP. Then we can get into the escalating you-jailbreak-it-we-find-a-way-to-stop-the-jailbreak-you-jailbreak-it-again game that seems to be the inevitable result of a conflict between those who want total freedom and those who want to stifle freedom within their own self-serving carefully defined boundaries.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Ain't DHCP6 likely to render DNS redundant anyway, since in IPv6, there won't be mention of DNS servers, domain names & the like the way one does w/ DHCP4? (It's why even if one uses autoconfiguration to assign devices IPv6 addresses, one would still be using DHCP6.)
...to the UN, which would hand DNS over to something like WIPO. At first glance Namecoin looks great. Let's try to make it work. We need to get it up and running before major governments start outlawing what they will call "rogue" DNS.
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i've mentioned this before, and it's worth mentioning again: the p2p-dns project's goals appear to be to create a separate ".p2p" top-level domain rather than to provide a complete distributed DNS replacement. that's just simply not ambitious or useful enough. we need a replacement where you put in the alternative DNS into your system and it takes over and goes seamlessly from there. you then rely on "crowd-sourcing" from the intelligent people just like cloudmark do distributed spam filtering to check that the submitted DNS alternative zone files are actually correct.
Namecoin has a first-come-first-served system of domain ownership with no oversight. That means it will only ever be popular with Internet libertarians, because nobody else would want to touch such an anarchic hellhole. It would never ever be practical for business. Ever. And .onion is technically better so it's not even useful for uber-geek tinkering.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
Could convergence be implemented for DNS resolution as well? Could you resolve a domain through the standard DNS hierarchy, through a p2p net, and through another means then take the most likely value from what you get back? Seems it would offer graceful degridation.
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Networks like Tor, Freenet, AnoNet/DarkNET Conglomeration and I2P have some kind of distributed DNS. Projects like Netsukuku implement a distributed DNS: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/10/6/101832/209
I think free market could handle that. If a name is important enough for a company, they will buy it from its owner. In fact, domain names should be sold on auctions. Also, what I was trying to point out that sometimes several entities from different fields own the smae trademark. But the biggest problem with that is that it gives companies an unfair advantage as they are the ones controlling the majority of trademarks. The current system encourages excessive IP herding, as it is a requirement to get domains, driving the market in a bad direction.
"We'd like you to work hard to spread free entertainment" isn't a compelling cause. Who would have guessed that.
instead of using a distributed dsn service of questionable reliability why not just install bind9 on your computer and it will be its own dsn server. anyone with Linux or a mac could do this and as for windows users they could run say damn small Linux or another tiny Linux variant in a vm with bind9 dsn server installed on it. and route your dsn requests to it?
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First, we had the Arab Spring. Now, we have the Internet Spring! Hmm... somehow, I don't think so.
For example, AFAIK, German authorities don't really follow the statistics about ethnicity, skin colour, "race" of their population, they don't really know how it's distributed (does Berlin has, say, 100k or 300k black people? Who knows; at most one can tell, I think, how many immigrated from African countries)
Also... what, are we really not satisfied from how the unnamed criminal will get, considered fair by the courts, officially sanctioned punishment? Wishing for "traditional" treatment, with simplistic views of overall effects on the world? (come to think of it, what happened during WW2 wasn't that unusual, in human history - it was mostly how new methods & technology allowed for terrifying scales and efficiencies) Would we like some groups of people to take matters in their own hands?... (vigilantism seems to be revving up on the web as is, anyway, up to libel with impunity; lets be careful not to return to extralegal punishments, mob justice, witch-hunts...)
An atheist might say that it is impossible to "defame" a religion, since they're all made up anyway.
Actually, he might just say that religions defame each other constantly, anyway :P (and "a hard-line Christian or Muslim" might not really care about other than his)
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