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Centralised DNS = bad. That's the issue.

• billswift 15y ago
  It isn't just the domain names system, the whole way IP addresses are handled isn't much better.
  • woodrow 15y ago
    Care to elaborate? I think the RIRs are doing a reasonable job, though if you don't like the needs-based approach to allocating addresses I could see the RIRs as disappointing.
• dsl 15y ago
  It is a billion times better than decentralized DNS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_file#History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_file#History
  • dstein 15y ago
    I imagine a decentralized DNS service based on the bitcoin network would be kinda cool.
    • pizza 15y ago
      Check out namecoin.
      • chrisjsmith 15y ago
        Interesting - thanks for the link.
      • baltcode 15y ago
        I had difficulty understanding namecoin. Do you simply pay for DNS registration with namecoins or is the DNS itself hosted in a decentralized and anonymous fashion?
        • doublec 15y ago
          You pay for the registration and update of names with namecoins and the data is stored in the namecoin blockchain. In this way it is decentralized. Lookups are done directly from the blockchain.
      • gasull 15y ago
        Or just .onion using Tor.
  • andrewcooke 15y ago
    if anyone is interested, i wrote a script to improve that a little. obviously it's no replacement for dns, but it makes it easier to share the data - it treats your hosts file as a database that can be both dumped to a file and updated from various sources, including web pages. https://github.com/ghettonet/GhettoNet https://github.com/ghettonet/GhettoNet