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DNS alternatives #146

Open xaur opened 4 years ago

xaur commented 4 years ago

DNS is a simple database that maps human-readable names to IP addresses. Kind of an address book for our browsers. The idea is not hard.

The problem is that DNS is owned by a hierarchy of salesmen: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/20/org_registry_sale_shambles/

Explore alternative ways to resolve domain names into IP addresses to make Decred services accessible even if DNS goes nuts: GNS (by GNUnet), IPNS (by IPFS), etc.