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DNS still runs strong and it was ~~designed~~ released* in the November 1983. It still holds up basically whole of internet. in most cases SQL is good enough
by Xelbair 1y ago
DNS still runs strong and it was ~~designed~~ released* in the November 1983.
It still holds up basically whole of internet.
in most cases SQL is good enough for 90% of workloads.
- seemaze 1y agoWhat would DNS look like if it were released in 2025?
- Something1234 1y agoIt would be completely centralized with a micropayment rent seeking solution to update records.
- ochronus 1y agoI laughed at first, then I cried, because sadly, it's true.
- oblio 1y agoI think it would actually be (pseudo-)decentralized and you'd have to mine a blockchain node containing each domain, where its creators will have reserved at least 10% of its node pool to make sure they became billionaires if it took off. Plus micropayments, of course :-)
- TZubiri 1y agoNono, it would run decentralized in blockchain with a mircropayment rent seeking solution to update records.
- vvern 1y agoYou’re right that it would run on a block chain, but that fact would primarily exist to power some marketing. Everybody would end up interacting with it through a single centralized web site and API because it’s the only usable way to get it to work.
- TZubiri 1y ago{txid:"7abde7838e8db8ba98bf8b74be77a9e787be7b8bfb7b893", gas: 0.00015, query: "A", domain: "blabla.com", actual-dns-that-will-resolve-the-query: "8.8.8.8"}
- kopadudl 1y agoCertainly some AI features
- eitland 1y agoAnd it would make it really painful. But we couldn't get rid of it because it papered over something important.
- wpm 1y agoObfuscated behind QUIC.
- looperhacks 1y agoCertainly a JSON-based REST API that is not really RESTful just so that people can complain about it
- Xelbair 1y agoOwned by GoogleFlare with public spec, but most of it would be run as closed source application that uses extended spec akin to EEE - making it impossible to use without relying on GoogleFlare. config defined in YAML.
- slightwinder 1y agoJSON-Messages over WebSockets. And proper path-format.
- 6510 1y ago...and what should it look like?
- 6510 1y agoIll try answer it myself with more questions. If ranking search results is such a hard problem perhaps dividing domain names should be a tad more complex than giving all the words to the first person to ask as long as they have the money. Perhaps A web directory of some kind but that still doesn't answer the riddle of ordering.
- slightwinder 1y agoIsn't DNS a catastrophic clusterfuck which also had to be patched up multiple times to not allow people burning down the whole world? I mean, yes, it's doing its job, but mainly because of people doing their job.
- drakythe 1y agoPeople who are malicious or see an opportunity for gain will always abuse a system. Just because the DNS system has had to be patched to handle the abuse doesn't mean its badly designed. If it were as badly designed as your comment seems to imply it wouldn't be able to operate even half as well as it does. The combustion engine's fundamental design is pretty damn good and that it had to be updated to handle unleaded gasoline isn't a knock (pun... intended?) against that design.
- Xelbair 1y agoQuite the opposite: as it designed in a way that it could be patched and extended, while also being performant.