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AleoNet / snarkOS

A Decentralized Operating System for ZK Applications
http://snarkos.org
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[Feature] Add DNS resolver for node connections #378

Open raychu86 opened 4 years ago

raychu86 commented 4 years ago

🚀 Feature

A DNS resolver can be added to snarkOS to facilitate node connections.

Motivation

Node connections are purely reliant on IP addresses, which is much more difficult to reason about than a human readable URL. A simple DNS resolver will greatly aid in manual connection to nodes and delineation between bootnodes.

Implementation

A DNS resolver such as ns-dns-tokio could be used to translate URLs into IPs that the node can connect to.

damons commented 3 years ago

Are we using URLs? Would a simple hostname not do instead of just the IP? This way one could rely on the OS to do the resolution? Curious why we need a whole library to resolve names when that's usually a system-level thing.

damons commented 3 years ago

Unless we mean reverse lookups, which would negatively impact performance dramatically, I'd think.