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This is an interesting proposal. After some thought I must say I'm also in favour of it.
by Y_Y 5y ago
This is an interesting proposal. After some thought I must say I'm also in favour of it.
- wizzwizz4 5y agoThe public would still use internet applications, like Facebook. They just wouldn't be able to use the web any more.
- mitigating 5y agoApps use hostsnames 99% of the time.
- toast0 5y agoI don't think Facebook's apps work when there's no access to DNS. At least it didn't seem like it when I was working to keep that capability for WhatsApp as it moved into FB datacenters. I don't think very many other applications will work without DNS either, although I never did much competitive testing.
- xrisk 5y agoTelegram does AFAIK.
- wizzwizz4 5y agoFacebook could (relatively) easily modify their system to do its own IP handling; they probably have enough money to rebuild the entire stack.
- toast0 5y agoSure, they could, but at least while I was there, there was no interest in doing it, and amazement than anyone else would want to (and push back on declaring at least a handful of IPs as stably allocated enough to be included in app downloads).