BitTorrent Based DNS to Counter U.S. Domain Seizures
December 1st, 2010I like it. I’m not yet able to believe the hype about how it supposedly, “Can’t be touched by any governmental institution,” but I’ll definitely be following developments.
Something like this needs to happen.
Via: TorrentFreak:
The domain seizures by the United States authorities in recent days and upcoming legislation that could make similar takeovers even easier in the future, have inspired a group of enthusiasts to come up with a new, decentralized and BitTorrent-powered DNS system. This system will exchange DNS information through peer-to-peer transfers and will work with a new .p2p domain extension.
In a direct response to the domain seizures by US authorities during the last few days, a group of established enthusiasts have started working on a DNS system that can’t be touched by any governmental institution.
Ironically, considering the seizure of the Torrent-Finder meta-search engine domain, the new DNS system will be partly powered by BitTorrent.
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The new P2P-based DNS system will require users to run an application on their own computer before they can access the domains, but there are also plans to create a separate root-server (like OpenNIC) as a complimentary service. It’s worth noting that the DNS changes will only affect the new .p2p domains, it will not interfere with access to any other domains.
Monitoring also, with interest.
“Hey, buddy, have you seen the OTHER internet? Here, just install this…”
I’ll run a node or six, once there’s software.
I believe that whatever individual freedoms we might salvage for the future, what little will be left to us from the encroaching State, will largely be dependent on the work of geeks, gurus, and hackers, working in obscurity and without recognition. May they live long and prosper.
One of my favorite lines of literature is the closing sentence of George Eliot’s _Middlemarch_ (one of the greatest novels in English Lit):
“… for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts, and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life and rest in unvisited tombs.”
from http://hravan.livejournal.com/148108.html
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