[Freedombox-discuss] Distributed/non-hierarchical naming/discovery system

[Nicolás Reynolds]

El 17/02/11 06:35, stillyet at googlemail.com dijo:
> What I've read so far on Freedombox doesn't seem to cover the issues of
> naming and discovery of nodes.
> 
> DNS, as we currently have it, is an inherently hierarchical naming system.
> It has a single point of failure - or capture - in the root name servers.
> Even if freedombox used a different root name server from the standard ICANN
> controlled ones, it would still be something for hostiles to attack in order
> to disrupt or disable the worldwide freedombox network, or to capture
> individual node addresses within the freedombox space.
> 
> The alternative is a distributed peer-to-peer naming and discovery system
> such as the IDONS proposal, http://www.idons.org. It seems to me  that would
> have a very natural fit with what is being proposed for freedombox.
> 
> Apologies if people have already thought of (and perhaps discarded) this
> idea.

Hi, there's also p2p-dns: http://dot-p2p.org


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