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Faster name resolution is chasing a local maximum. The better path to improving the internet is to rely on DNS less and content addressing more, that way conte
by __MatrixMan__ 3mo ago
Faster name resolution is chasing a local maximum. The better path to improving the internet is to rely on DNS less and content addressing more, that way content stays accessible as long as somebody on your part of the network has it.
- lokar 3mo agoSomething still has to locate the resource you want, and that will involve something equivalent to DNS.
- __MatrixMan__ 3mo agoSure but it's a different game if instead of finding the machine that has the data, it can find any machine that has the data. That machine might be elsewhere on your lan or elsewhere in your city.
- lokar 3mo agoBut that's not how DNS works. It does not find /the/ node that matches the host element of the resource. It finds a list of nodes (often a subset of eligible nodes).