8 Nov
2000
8 Nov
'00
8:45 a.m.
On Sun, 5 Nov 2000, Eric Cordian wrote:
DNS and the root servers are a single point of failure in the global Internet, and one that is easily pressured to delete pointers to speech that is deemed politically incorrect.
Given the current impetus behind file sharing, I sort of think someone will come up with a way of managing completely decentralized directories well enough before long. I certainly have been tinkering with the idea. After that, all that is needed is a rewrite of DNS on top of such a service. Not nice, but useful. What is the current state of the art in high availability transparently distributed databases? Sampo Syreeni <decoy@iki.fi>, aka decoy, student/math/Helsinki university