Comments on: AnNet – The Anarchist Network (DNS) http://blog.mikeasoft.com/2005/11/19/annet-the-anarchist-network-dns/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:50:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Natanael_L http://blog.mikeasoft.com/2005/11/19/annet-the-anarchist-network-dns/comment-page-1/#comment-115322 Natanael_L Wed, 02 Feb 2011 23:05:14 +0000 http://blog.mikeasoft.com/?p=19#comment-115322 What do you think of the receny development around DNS-P2P? http://dot-p2p.org (or .net) What do you think of the receny development around DNS-P2P? http://dot-p2p.org (or .net)

]]> By: Mike http://blog.mikeasoft.com/2005/11/19/annet-the-anarchist-network-dns/comment-page-1/#comment-270 Mike Fri, 19 May 2006 10:14:27 +0000 http://blog.mikeasoft.com/?p=19#comment-270 Hi mChicago, thanks for the comment. There's a brief outline of the initial database design here: http://blog.mikeasoft.com/2005/11/22/annets-peer-to-peer-database/ This design has multiple sub-meshes each containing a full copy of the DNS database, I hope to have the allocation of data handled in such a way that it is unlikely for two nodes on different sub-meshes who hold the same data to be in the same IP block. Meaning the validity of a node's data can be verified from other sub-meshes and the likelyhood of someone being able to control two nodes in two different sub-meshes which hold the same data would be extremely slim. This post is actually quite old, it only ended up on Advogato recently by accident due to me editing it slightly here (and it not previously being on Advogato). Unfortunately I haven't done much work on it since this post was made (I've been rather distracted with other prrojects), but I do intend to return to it in the future (possibly as my dissertation project). Hi mChicago, thanks for the comment. There’s a brief outline of the initial database design here: http://blog.mikeasoft.com/2005/11/22/annets-peer-to-peer-database/

This design has multiple sub-meshes each containing a full copy of the DNS database, I hope to have the allocation of data handled in such a way that it is unlikely for two nodes on different sub-meshes who hold the same data to be in the same IP block. Meaning the validity of a node’s data can be verified from other sub-meshes and the likelyhood of someone being able to control two nodes in two different sub-meshes which hold the same data would be extremely slim.

This post is actually quite old, it only ended up on Advogato recently by accident due to me editing it slightly here (and it not previously being on Advogato). Unfortunately I haven’t done much work on it since this post was made (I’ve been rather distracted with other prrojects), but I do intend to return to it in the future (possibly as my dissertation project).

]]> By: mChicago http://blog.mikeasoft.com/2005/11/19/annet-the-anarchist-network-dns/comment-page-1/#comment-267 mChicago Fri, 19 May 2006 10:06:02 +0000 http://blog.mikeasoft.com/?p=19#comment-267 Hi, The idea you are getting at there is interesting, but will it be acceptable? If this is performed on a peer-peer basis, what is the possiblity of impostors convincing a target that a particular DNS is somewhere else? Have you performed any analysis to reassure commercial backing that their domain can not be hijacked in anyway (consider any company doing financial transactions or order purchases) and how that compares to the current system (which I believe the weak points are the companys own DNS lookup servers. Hi, The idea you are getting at there is interesting, but will it be acceptable? If this is performed on a peer-peer basis, what is the possiblity of impostors convincing a target that a particular DNS is somewhere else? Have you performed any analysis to reassure commercial backing that their domain can not be hijacked in anyway (consider any company doing financial transactions or order purchases) and how that compares to the current system (which I believe the weak points are the companys own DNS lookup servers.

]]> By: Mike http://blog.mikeasoft.com/2005/11/19/annet-the-anarchist-network-dns/comment-page-1/#comment-38 Mike Wed, 04 Jan 2006 19:26:21 +0000 http://blog.mikeasoft.com/?p=19#comment-38 Thanks for the link daniele, it sounds similar to my initial prototype. However a proper DNS implementation would be a much nicer solution since it would enable full usage of the domain rather than just HTTP. I'll be interested to look in to their database design :). Thanks for the link daniele, it sounds similar to my initial prototype. However a proper DNS implementation would be a much nicer solution since it would enable full usage of the domain rather than just HTTP. I’ll be interested to look in to their database design :) .

]]> By: daniele http://blog.mikeasoft.com/2005/11/19/annet-the-anarchist-network-dns/comment-page-1/#comment-37 daniele Wed, 04 Jan 2006 19:10:19 +0000 http://blog.mikeasoft.com/?p=19#comment-37 Take a look at YaCY: http://www.yacy.net. It is a distributed search engine, a proxy and a web cache. Each peer inside yacy has its own name, that can be reached requesting http://peername.yacy to the proxy. I think it's similar to what you are thinking... Take a look at YaCY: http://www.yacy.net.
It is a distributed search engine, a proxy and a web cache. Each peer inside yacy has its own name, that can be reached requesting http://peername.yacy to the proxy. I think it’s similar to what you are thinking…

]]> By: Mike http://blog.mikeasoft.com/2005/11/19/annet-the-anarchist-network-dns/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Mike Tue, 13 Dec 2005 17:11:06 +0000 http://blog.mikeasoft.com/?p=19#comment-18 Thanks for the comment; I don't see much reason for a specific mechanism within AnNet for aliasing domains with phone numbers, since domain names themselves are effectively just aliases of IP addresses and there's nothing to stop a user from registering their phone number as their domain if that is their wish. Thanks for the comment; I don’t see much reason for a specific mechanism within AnNet for aliasing domains with phone numbers, since domain names themselves are effectively just aliases of IP addresses and there’s nothing to stop a user from registering their phone number as their domain if that is their wish.

]]> By: Tariq http://blog.mikeasoft.com/2005/11/19/annet-the-anarchist-network-dns/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Tariq Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:25:44 +0000 http://blog.mikeasoft.com/?p=19#comment-17 Like the idea dont you think providing a option /alias for name to be phone number may help a little bit? This may not be good for privacy / annonimity but I suppose its primary use will be sort of hosting on the go. Your idea will be picked up by Chinese+Indians :) with 2 billion among them alone this will be required once computer penetration increases to double digit number. Like the idea dont you think providing a option /alias for name to be phone number may help a little bit? This may not be good for privacy / annonimity but I suppose its primary use will be sort of hosting on the go. Your idea will be picked up by Chinese+Indians :) with 2 billion among them alone this will be required once computer penetration increases to double digit number.

]]> By: Michael Sheldon’s Dev Stuff » AnNet’s Peer-To-Peer Database http://blog.mikeasoft.com/2005/11/19/annet-the-anarchist-network-dns/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Michael Sheldon’s Dev Stuff » AnNet’s Peer-To-Peer Database Tue, 22 Nov 2005 00:18:23 +0000 http://blog.mikeasoft.com/?p=19#comment-10 [...] Following on from my post about the general design of AnNet I’m now going to have a go at outlining my ideas for the distributed peer-to-peer database that it’ll use for storing the DNS entries. Please take any literal values with a pinch of salt, these will probably change dramatically based upon testing and are likely to alter dependant on the size of the network. [...] [...] Following on from my post about the general design of AnNet I’m now going to have a go at outlining my ideas for the distributed peer-to-peer database that it’ll use for storing the DNS entries. Please take any literal values with a pinch of salt, these will probably change dramatically based upon testing and are likely to alter dependant on the size of the network. [...]

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