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BT blocking DNS

2016-01-03 13:37:58.824359+00 by Dan Lyke 2 comments

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Wow, fuck you BT

This is all the more reason we need to move away from DNS to key-based identity systems.

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#Comment Re: BT blocking DNS made: 2016-01-03 19:42:54.324944+00 by: Jack William Bell

Not sure what you mean by 'key-based identity system'. Can you elaborate?

I've given a lot of thought to the possibility of people hosting their own DNS servers, using some kind of shared naming system that can be updated from particular hosts. These DNS servers would still forward requests to the regular DNS servers, but only after looking at the shared name lists first.

The problem with that, from a social-good aspect, is that we end up with a 'balkanized' Internet where groups of people congregate around their preferred sites. Not that having an open DNS stops echo chambers from forming . . .

In any case this would do two things:

  1. Break the monopoly on domain names and make it possible to have any domain you like (inside your shared name group)
  2. Allow for a new kind of ShadowNet (not quite dark enough to be a DarkNet) of aligned users, similar to Gibson's Walled Cities

So, how is your concept different from this? How would it be implemented?

#Comment Re: BT blocking DNS made: 2016-01-04 00:17:13.937904+00 by: Dan Lyke

All document references can be done through a combination of hashes and public keys, those can be resolved to current ip addresses via something like tagged Bit Torrent hash chain, and names can either be local our shared (like we resolve names to phone numbers now).

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