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Shoot me down if i'm ignorant but isn't this possible even now? Don't we already have several independent DNS providers who can just make domains resolve as th
by blntechie 16y ago
Shoot me down if i'm ignorant but isn't this possible even now?
Don't we already have several independent DNS providers who can just make domains resolve as they want and create an alternate web?
Feels like everything works on a consensus and good faith to me. Just imagine if Google with its 8.8.8.8 DNS server configured in many systems can make bing.com resolve to google.com. right?
- ZoFreX 16y agoServices such as your ISP's or Google's DNS servers are not "independent" in the same sense as AlterNIC. They still defer to the root DNS servers (the servers named after the letters of the alphabet mentioned in the article) and are basically just proxies or caches. An alternate DNS /root/ would also mean an alternate place to go to register domain names, which is what is meant by fracturing - google.com may point to different IP addresses depending on your root. You are correct that widely trusted DNS servers could potentially hijack people even now, but it is a slightly different problem to the one being discussed in the article.