[Smaug] Wikileaks

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Fri Dec 3 17:07:32 PST 2010


Quoting Anthony Ettinger (anthony at chovy.com):

> is there a concept of distributed dns (like p2p for dns serving)?
> I'm aware of tor-hosted web sites, but those seem to be largely
> unavailable and unsearchable, even when one is connected to the tor
> network.

You can use anycast (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anycast) to
autoroute inbound queries to a fixed, specific nameserver IP to any of a
varying group of actual back-end nameservers.  This is what a lot of the
large sites do already, including many of the root nameservers.




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