[Smaug] Wikileaks

[Anthony Ettinger]

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Interesting. I wonder if it's possible to use Anycast to route to an
anonymous tor site yet still give the general public a domain name
that anyone can use to access a tor-served web site.



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