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Wouldn't it be simpler and easier for clients to implement when they would use the TXT to store a magnet link and host the file via webtorrents? Maybe such a s
by derN3rd 3y ago
Wouldn't it be simpler and easier for clients to implement when they would use the TXT to store a magnet link and host the file via webtorrents?
Maybe such a solution already exists, but I couldn't find it
- imoverclocked 3y agoIt's not far from OpenAFS which uses SRV records to point to fileservers. It's not magnet/torrent but it's certainly DNS discovery for data on a different protocol.
- tonyg 3y agoWell, I'm not sure adding a webtorrent implementation counts as simpler for clients than just TXT record retrieval.
- whalesalad 3y agoNope. How could you get any easier than plain DNS? That would require a torrent client and bittorrent protocol. The beauty of this hack is that it exists on top of the ubiquitous DNS system.
- dannyobrien 3y agoI think the obvious match here is how IPFS can use a dnslink TXT file to point to the content-addressable top of an IPFS-distributed static web https://docs.ipfs.tech/concepts/dnslink/ https://docs.ipfs.tech/concepts/dnslink/ . This is how a lot of dweb/web3 websites maintain and advertise a non-http mirror. It works out of the box for sites served using https://distributed.press/ https://distributed.press/ (non-commercial, open source) or https://fleek.co/ https://fleek.co/ (hosted). If you use Brave, or have the IPFS browser extension, you can access sites like https://ffdweb.org/ https://ffdweb.org/ as an option, or preferentially.