On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Brandon wrote: > > > I do not know how many there are exactly, but definitely more than a > > few or a handful. Some are non-commercial. So I do think your view of > > the possibilities of dynamic DNS is unnecessarily pessimistic. > > It's still centralized. We don't like relying on centralized points of > failuire.
In what way is it centralized? What do you mean exactly? The root-servers? There are 16 of those all over the globe. > > What's so centralized about DNS? It is very much in essence a > > distributed database. I cannot see how depending upon it, is more > > dangerous than depending upon IP addresses. Their functioning also > > depends on the same system. > > DNS addresses are sold by a small number of organizations. An IP can be > obtained from anyone with a block of IP addresses. There are at least thirty (30) independant registrars selling com/net/org names. Really. Many more resellers. Thousands in fact. And then there are the country domains (like .de, .uk .nl), which are managed differently in every country. As far as I can see and my experience goes a domain is to be had far more easily than an IP. (And in a few minutes.) Is it something 'philosophical' that you don't like domains and DNS? Anyway, you don't need to register a domain for dynamic DNS. You get a subdomain (or perhaps rather a hostname) within a domain. At least with those free providers of dynamic DNS I know. And in using DNS in stead of IP numbers a lot more people could fully participate in Freenet. -- Marc Schneiders ------- Venster - http://www.venster.nl |marc at venster.nl - marc at bijt.net - marc at schneiders.org| A sleepless night's thoughts : http://www.freecopy.org _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
