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That also has its downsides though. For starters, it would no longer be possible to take down domains used for controlling botnets.
by ulrikrasmussen 7y ago
That also has its downsides though. For starters, it would no longer be possible to take down domains used for controlling botnets.
- asdfasgasdgasdg 7y agoIntelligent botnet authors will switch to the decentralized options once they are widely available and stable. While I think there's limited benefit to decentralization for any use case I care about, I don't think centralization is going to stop this trend in the medium term.
- Karrot_Kream 7y agoThe GNU Name System https://gnunet.org/en/use.html https://gnunet.org/en/use.html already has a distributed DNS-like system built out.
- Aeolun 7y agoThis does not look like something my grandma would use.
- Karrot_Kream 7y agoI don't think she has to. As long as your ISPs run GNS themselves, and offer you DNS via DHCP, then you can just forego the ISP DNS server and drop in your own local GNS. Mount .com and the other TLDs you want from direct from ISP off their pubkey, and overwrite the TLDs you don't care much for.
- neop1x 7y agoThat's a similar nonsense as is the broad-scale surveilence to prevent terrorism. Botnets can already build a decentralized store of IP addresses, bypassing public DNS completely. Centralization makes some people, organizations or state just too much powerful.