On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 06:26:34AM +0200, Marc Schneiders wrote: > On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Oskar Sandberg wrote:
> > This is an issue of scale. You are saying "decentrailzed" and popping out > > numbers like "16" and "30". > > I was not saying "decentralized". I was asking what was meant by the > claims that DNS is centralized. "Not decentralized". I'm not an expert on DNS, but IIRC it is a hierarchical pyramid going all the way up to a single server at the very top. Yes, there is some level of redunancy at every stop, but that does not make it less centralized. > > Come back with 16,000 or 30,000 and I will be impressed. > > I do not want to impress you. Why would I? But I just read there are > 600.000 to 800.000 nameservers running. It was an educated guess > according to the author. So it might be just 300.000. I think I meant to say "and you'll have my attention". There may be that many nameservers in total, but most of them are just slaves and/or feeding out local names. You can screw things up pretty bad just by fucking with the top 16 (or even the top one). > > BTW, I am planning on putting in name address support, at least for 0.3 > > since we have no other form of address resolution, > > Now *that* is what makes me happy. Call DNS whatever you like, as long > as Freenet makes use of it. > > > I'm just saying that it > > is not "the solution". > > It isn't but it works. I will be happy to try anything that can > replace it. > > -- > 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 > -- \oskar _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
