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Has anyone thought of DNS for onion addresses?

• lucb1e 10y ago
  That's rather impossible or we wouldn't be using weird .onion addresses but just .com (at least before gTLDs became commonplace). Please read up on how they work.
  • gjjrfcbugxbhf 10y ago
    Cool good to know. I guess next best would be done type of trusted directory listing - maybe orgs could somehow sign their entries on a directory page? The directory could put redirects for signed services in their path namespace. Meaning people would need Vanityurlfordirservice.onion/facebook To access the service. Or is this also impossible?
    • lucb1e 10y ago
      Then you might as well use the normal web. DNS is basically a directory listing with IP addresses to connect to, like a phone book; or a "trusted directory listing" as you say. Onion addresses are public keys which somehow find their way to a rendezvous point (I forgot the details).
      • gjjrfcbugxbhf 10y ago
        But having accepted that DNS is impossible I'm now suggesting actual redirects (as in HTTP 301 or 302) rather than DNS.