[PARKED] RIP dir lookup

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[PARKED] RIP dir lookup #131

Open vyzo opened 7 years ago

vyzo commented 7 years ago

As planned when we originally introduced DHT lookups, we can now retire directory lookups in mcnode.

parkan commented 7 years ago

Hmm I'm not sure we've definitively decided to do this, I can still see directories being useful for certain scenarios.

vyzo commented 7 years ago

Oh, we are not ditching directories altogether, and we still publish peer info when we register for non-dht clients to discover us. This just prunes the directory lookup in concat in favor of using the DHT.

parkan commented 7 years ago

let's sleep on this one

vyzo commented 7 years ago

There are some arguments for keeping the dir lookup, at least for a while longer:

internal lookups for clusters
aleph nodes can go public without integrating with the dht

So let's keep it parked and revisit later on.