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[Aklyon]

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/11/fed-up-with-icann-pirate-bay-cofounder-floats-p2p-dns-system.ars
http://dns-p2p.openpad.me/1?

I wonder how it would actually work.

[Tellemurius]

sounds alot like old school usenet. i think their point of their new protocol would be allowing more servers to direct download requests to the correct seeder instead of relying on a central system. this reduces their overheads and  have us fly around in the internet confusing watchdogs. but the problem would be finding people with servers that can handle the bandwidth needs.

[Dasleah]

sounds alot like old school usenet. i think their point of their new protocol would be allowing more servers to direct download requests to the correct seeder instead of relying on a central system. this reduces their overheads and  have us fly around in the internet confusing watchdogs. but the problem would be finding people with servers that can handle the bandwidth needs.

...P2P DNS doesn't have anything to do with downloading and seeding things. It's about de-centralising name servers in response to governments or other third parties effectively being able to shut down traffic to a website because it's all administered and routed through a single organisation.

[Tellemurius]

sounds alot like old school usenet. i think their point of their new protocol would be allowing more servers to direct download requests to the correct seeder instead of relying on a central system. this reduces their overheads and  have us fly around in the internet confusing watchdogs. but the problem would be finding people with servers that can handle the bandwidth needs.

...P2P DNS doesn't have anything to do with downloading and seeding things. It's about de-centralising name servers in response to governments or other third parties effectively being able to shut down traffic to a website because it's all administered and routed through a single organisation.

yes as i was saying the servers will have you racing all over the internet.

[Virex]

Isn't the DNS like the single most used service on the whole web? Making that P2P is going to hit the 'net like shoving a load of elephants down a children's water slide every frigging millisecond.

[Aklyon]

Isn't the DNS like the single most used service on the whole web? Making that P2P is going to hit the 'net like shoving a load of elephants down a children's water slide every frigging millisecond.

DNS is the thing the translates http://www.bay12games.com into the site's IP address, which is what the computer uses to find that website. If you use Command Prompt (or similar terminal program) and find the IP of a site yourself, you can just go straight there without needing to ask a DNS server where to go.

The DNS servers are under the control of ICANN i think, which the US government is being silly with and not relinquishing, or something. pretty sure its something related to that idiotic COICA bill.

Update: They has wiki now.

[Virex]

As I said, everyone uses the DNS servers. If you first gotta route all over the web before you can get an IP that's going to add quite some overhead.

[Aklyon]

Well, from what I've seen (and semi-understood) in the IRC, its going to be less like true P2P and more like how Diaspora* is set up, minus the entire social networking part.

[Sowelu]

I find this hilarious.  Two current stories on Slashdot:  "China supposedly-accidentally hijacked a huge part of the internet's DNS service!  That's horrible!"  "We need to distribute all our DNS data in a way that ANYONE can hijack it!"