Hi Marc,


P2P dns springs to mind. But it seems to have no recent development...

https://github.com/Mononofu/P2P-DNS
http://sourceforge.net/projects/p2pdns/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtdnsp2p/
http://qtdnsp2p.sourceforge.net/

You could also have a look at MaidSafe, for P2P cloud storage and currency.
http://maidsafe.net/
https://forum.safenetwork.io/
It's not dns per sé, but it has a lot of interesting stuff. And a small
open and dedicated community. Development by a well funded Scottish company.

Also, NameCoin, CryptoCoin and other virtual currencies seem to have P2P
dns buitl-in:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root#NameCoin_P2P_DNS

Let's also not forget that names.space is still suing ICANN:
https://rally.org/namespace.



Cheers,


Wim



2015-04-03 22:55 GMT+02:00 marc <marcxdv@???>:

> > If I recall correctly, so far *every* Linux I've used uses an external
> > DNS by default instead of installing its own recursor.
> >
> > I figure there must be a reason, but I don't know what it is.
>
> So a cache becomes more efficient if several machines use it -
> especially given the branching/hierarchical structure of DNS.
> But that was in the good old days - thesedays with intrusive
> monitoring, it might be worthwhile to run a local DNS cache
> for the privacy benefit and take the hit of a bit more back
> and forth - modern client machines have enough resources to
> run it
>
> I believe some distributions already use things like dnsmasq
> to do simpler caching, and I remember that a while ago
> libc offered a caching daemon (nscd ? nsdc ?) for anything
> in nsswitch.conf although I think the API there didn't allow for
> some of the subtleties that DNS offers
>
> Actually it might even even be worth investigating alternate
> NS implementations - maybe somebody knows of a proof-of-work
> libnss_* library ? Something like that might decentralise
> things even more ...
>
> I suppose the latter are pie in the sky ideas - getting a
> useful release out is more important, but maybe work for
> later...
>
> regards
>
> marc
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