Hi Marc,
P2P dns springs to mind. But it seems to have no recent development... https://github.com/Mononofu/P2P-DNS http://sourceforge.net/projects/p2pdns/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtdnsp2p/ http://qtdnsp2p.sourceforge.net/ You could also have a look at MaidSafe, for P2P cloud storage and currency. http://maidsafe.net/ https://forum.safenetwork.io/ It's not dns per sé, but it has a lot of interesting stuff. And a small open and dedicated community. Development by a well funded Scottish company. Also, NameCoin, CryptoCoin and other virtual currencies seem to have P2P dns buitl-in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root#NameCoin_P2P_DNS Let's also not forget that names.space is still suing ICANN: https://rally.org/namespace. Cheers, Wim 2015-04-03 22:55 GMT+02:00 marc <marc...@welz.org.za>: > > If I recall correctly, so far *every* Linux I've used uses an external > > DNS by default instead of installing its own recursor. > > > > I figure there must be a reason, but I don't know what it is. > > So a cache becomes more efficient if several machines use it - > especially given the branching/hierarchical structure of DNS. > But that was in the good old days - thesedays with intrusive > monitoring, it might be worthwhile to run a local DNS cache > for the privacy benefit and take the hit of a bit more back > and forth - modern client machines have enough resources to > run it > > I believe some distributions already use things like dnsmasq > to do simpler caching, and I remember that a while ago > libc offered a caching daemon (nscd ? nsdc ?) for anything > in nsswitch.conf although I think the API there didn't allow for > some of the subtleties that DNS offers > > Actually it might even even be worth investigating alternate > NS implementations - maybe somebody knows of a proof-of-work > libnss_* library ? Something like that might decentralise > things even more ... > > I suppose the latter are pie in the sky ideas - getting a > useful release out is more important, but maybe work for > later... > > regards > > marc > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng >
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