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Cooperative Domain Name System

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100 pointsbowyakka10 comments

> FAQ: CoDoNS Deployment:

> I am interested in running a CoDoNS node locally. Can I join the CoDoNS overlay? [...]

> [..] Please let us know that you want to join by email and we will give you an update on project status and when we expect to ship you a bootable CD.

My first thought is that this project must be quite old as sending programs through CD might be faster than sending them through the Internet.

No kidding. 'Recent DNS Attacks' mentions 2007 in the description. I wonder if it's still active.

Last modified headers reveal it to be from: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 07:39:47 GMT

This looks interesting. I don't know enough about networking to make an informed comment. It looks like a distributed, self-healing alternative to DNS. But it seems like it would run into the same problem that most P2P systems have, right? If enough malicious nodes hop on the network, wouldn't they be able to direct traffic wherever they wanted?

Just for reference, it is called pseudospoofing or, using a recent buzzword, Sybil attack.

I think this problem is orthogonal to actual P2P protocols. It is rare that such protection is deeply integrated into the protocol itself, the most popular one is probably a GNUnet with its economic system. On the other hand, solution from Tor with its directory services and FreeNet with F2F mode can be adopted by any P2P network.

I remember hearing about this project quite some time ago. I am not sure it is still active. The last papers about the project are from 2006 - https://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/egs/beehive/paper.php

I could not locate source code. I just don't see a closed source DNS system gaining global traction.

Cjdns and the associated Hyperboria network seem to solve the same problem, but they have a working implementation and active users.

If it works alongside the existing DNS, let's make it happen. These new DDoS attacks are causing a great deal of collateral damage.

A real alternative is to push ipfs and ipns

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