mucklark

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   by mucklark 9y ago

   Well, trackers give out the addresses of peers. If those addresses were given out as hostnames, there'd be a lot of DNS work involved, but they don't (as far as I'm aware). So then the DNS curb would be looking up the hostnam
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   by mucklark 9y ago

   I would be surprised to learn that most routers DNS implementations enforce "a long minimum global TTL". What do you define as long by the way? EDIT: Also, "Torrenting gets a big boost for example." sounds strange, don&#
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   by mucklark 9y ago

   > 1. Persistent DNS cache using pdnsd (even after reboot because it is on-disk) with a long minimum global TTL. What problem does this solve? Is it a bid to improve privacy?