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How does it do DNS? Like Namecoin? Reading the site now..
by theseatoms 11y ago
How does it do DNS? Like Namecoin? Reading the site now..
- kordless 11y agoWe'll need a bridge into the current (centralized) DNS system. For now there is a domain that does that automatically for you.
- k2enemy 11y agoIPNS (The Inter-Planetary Naming System) is a step in that direction... http://gateway.ipfs.io/ipfs/QmTkzDwWqPbnAh5YiV5VwcTLnGdwSNsNTn2aDxdXBFca7D/example#/ipfs/QmThrNbvLj7afQZhxH72m5Nn1qiVn3eMKWFYV49Zp2mv9B/ipns/readme.md http://gateway.ipfs.io/ipfs/QmTkzDwWqPbnAh5YiV5VwcTLnGdwSNsN...
- sktrdie 11y agoIs everything Inter-Planetary?
- whyrusleeping 11y agoWe have IPNS, which allows you to have a mutable pointer to immutable content in ipfs. On top of that, you can put your IPNS name (which is still a longish ugly hash) into a DNS record to hide everything away (although youre still depending on DNS at that point) If you want to read more about ipns, its discussed in section 3.7 of the paper[1]. Do note that a few things have changed since the paper was last updated, so its not the source of truth right now. [1]: https://github.com/ipfs/papers/raw/master/ipfs-cap2pfs/ipfs-p2p-file-system.pdf https://github.com/ipfs/papers/raw/master/ipfs-cap2pfs/ipfs-...