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DNS is designed to keep the root server load relatively low, and before there were "ISPs", yes, DNS was designed for every "network" to have at least one DNS se

DNS is designed to keep the root server load relatively low, and before there were "ISPs", yes, DNS was designed for every "network" to have at least one DNS server. Before that, you see, everyone just exchanged copies of a massive /etc/hosts file. Anyway, I am totally all for a distributed p2p DNS, at least as a replacement for root servers.

simoncion 12y ago
> Anyway, I am totally all for a distributed p2p DNS DNS is a distributed, p2p system. The ability to add records that can be globally retrieved is not ad-hoc, but you didn't mention that in your requirement. </obligatory_pedantry>