That's what I get for hastily reading industry "white papers"!phelix wrote: No, most of the time you will only get the IP address of a relaying node and you can never know if you got the right one.
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- Tue Dec 10, 2013 5:56 pm
- Forum: Project direction
- Topic: Namecoin Torrent tracking
- Replies: 25
- Views: 21272
Re: Namecoin Torrent tracking
- Tue Dec 10, 2013 7:13 am
- Forum: Project direction
- Topic: Forum blocking IP addresses
- Replies: 28
- Views: 17072
Re: Forum blocking IP addresses
Could we just move to a managed forum and wiki service? It would reduce the overhead we are spending on administration and the software would be kept up to date (the wiki is ancient!)
Akismet is amazing and free, it should be enabled immediately!
Akismet is amazing and free, it should be enabled immediately!
- Tue Dec 10, 2013 6:58 am
- Forum: Project direction
- Topic: Scalability of namecoin
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3943
Re: Scalability of namecoin
I looked into data structures a while back and there were some interesting IP address compression structs, but that's all I can remember. At this point I think "optimizing" the format is premature optimization, JSON is convenient and text is cheap!
- Tue Dec 10, 2013 6:43 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Can we ever expect to access .bit domains with Firefox, etc?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 28305
Re: Can we ever expect to access .bit domains with Firefox,
(1) "in theory" namecoind-based systems should be faster because the data is already locally stored, and (2) "in practice" it may be slower due to implementation issues, he basically said that if .bit could make DNS run fast with less infrastructure investment, that would be a major selling point t...
- Tue Dec 10, 2013 6:21 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Namecoin foundation
- Replies: 27
- Views: 16251
Re: Namecoin foundation
Well put Jeremy, the Bitcoin foundation happens to live in my backyard, I'll see if I can't reach out to them.
- Tue Dec 10, 2013 3:45 am
- Forum: Project direction
- Topic: Discussion for revised fees
- Replies: 42
- Views: 29451
Re: Discussion for revised fees
I'm all for the network dynamically charging more for potentially popular domains, I'd much rather have that than feed slime-ball domain-squatters. However, not charging an annual fee for domains is insane, cyber-squatters already use a 3-day loophole in the ICANN domain registration system to "tast...
- Tue Dec 10, 2013 3:30 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Namecoin foundation
- Replies: 27
- Views: 16251
Re: Namecoin foundation
We could go with the Wikileaks model, designating an existing non-profit to handle the financials and reimbursing whomever is working on the project for the costs incurred. That would lead to difficulties with cost controls, etc, but it's an option. Iceland was supposed to be setting up a virtual ll...
- Tue Dec 10, 2013 3:20 am
- Forum: Project direction
- Topic: Namecoin Torrent tracking
- Replies: 25
- Views: 21272
Re: Namecoin Torrent tracking
Some dodgy data can be stored like it was in bitcoin? (can't remember the story) This is definitely one of the positives we have going for us: the IP address and account information for any Namecoin transaction is publicly available. It's there for anyone to investigate. I think we are limited in w...
- Tue Dec 10, 2013 3:20 am
- Forum: Project direction
- Topic: Scalability of namecoin
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3943
Re: Scalability of namecoin
For shits and giggles, I downloaded the top 1 million domains and some IP blacklists, resulting in a 4MB CSV file containing 142,202 IP <-> domain pairs. Simple Zip compression yielded 2:1 - 3:1 compression rates while PAQ8 delivered >4:1 rate. A custom data-structure would likely yield even higher ...
- Tue Dec 10, 2013 3:15 am
- Forum: Project direction
- Topic: "tls"/"fingerprint" and "alias" fields
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5151
Re: "tls"/"fingerprint" and "alias" fields
As a side note -- you can't do standard CA verification on a .bit alias, since a CA won't issue a cert for a non-ICANN domain such as .bit. No, I meant TLS for whatever domain it is pointing to, such that using a CA certified https://www.indolering.com would not bring up a warning if the TLS for ht...