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What if people used a de facto whitelist of IP addresses locally mapped to names in, for example, /etc/hosts? This is how the internet worked in its earliest da
by javajosh 6y ago
What if people used a de facto whitelist of IP addresses locally mapped to names in, for example, /etc/hosts? This is how the internet worked in its earliest days, after all. I'm not saying this is a good idea, but it's interesting because it also serves the interest of Google and Facebook, so they might promote the technique. Since people will only be able to see content from a small portion of the internet (the part they have in their local file), and would give content hosted by the big players a huge advantage. It would also have the interesting effect of making "raw IP" addresses more visible, and special, easily remembered IPv4 addresses more valuable!
- renewiltord 6y agoThis does not sound like an improvement over the status quo to me.
- rydre 6y agoYou want to go back to 90's?
- steve19 6y agoThe 80s
- tbodt 6y agoI wouldn't say it serves the interest of Google, because then you couldn't get to all the websites linked from Google Search.
- ramshorns 6y agoThat's fine, Google rehosts them all on AMP anyway and often people don't even click through past the search results page.
- wolco 6y agoAll you would get would be buttons that downloaded applications who would add a line in your host file when run.
- paranoidrobot 6y agoYou lose so much without DNS where each site/service controls their own domain. Consider modern hosting: Load balancers, CDNs, etc all configured and deployed on-demand, with the IPs changing as frequently as the provider likes. Sure, Amazon lets you get static IPs.. but now I want to re-point traffic at another region because this region is failing, or down for maintenance... sorry, no, can't do that. Anyone doing even moderate amount of hosting/whitelabelling doesn't have anywhere the IPs they need.
- ohazi 6y agoIt's silly to talk about this as if we'd throw out dns entirely... To address the original concern, all we'd have to do is throw out the ICANN root and replace it with a root controlled by a new NOTICANN organization. People were already talking about this when the .org debacle was still playing out. It might even be healthy for the internet to do this every so often as a warning to those who would dare to try something like this again. They serve at our pleasure. We're all just agreeing to use their root for convenience. As soon as it stops being convenient, we can literally just decide to give it to someone else.