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anyone knows how peer discovery works without any central servers ?
by p0la 8y ago
anyone knows how peer discovery works without any central servers ?
- Vekz 8y agoGreat question, because generally, you need a centralized ICE/STUN/Turn Nat punch through server to connect peers
- rad_gruchalski 8y agoDNS?
- p0la 8y agoI'd be surprised anyone would rely on DNS for security minded applications. If the goal is to have an easy to use and anonymous service, that can resist takedown attempts, DNS would fail you every step of the way.
- rad_gruchalski 8y agoHosting a solution dedicated DNS is not a rocket science these days. Publicly reachable service, that’s a totally different bag of problems.
- evilaubergine 8y agoit has core bootstrap nodeshttps://wiki.tox.chat/users/nodes https://wiki.tox.chat/users/nodes , and a pretty bad DHT formation, so by distributing a few nasty clients with bad bootstrap URLs you could easily cause multiple splits in the network
- p0la 8y agoThx for the link. Do you know if there is some sort of routing taking place ? Or all client are trying to consolidate a full Hash Table ?