hazlin, 4 months ago

@gabriel honestly, the biggest thing holding DNS back, is that you can't easily use multiple DNS sources.

Communities should be able to manage their own DNS mappings.

gabriel, 4 months ago

@hazlin
I kinda thought that was what opennic was all about. The documentation in the wiki has a ton of disclaimers and warnings though.

Every attempt seems to run into the same sets of problems, which makes me curious about things that go a completely different route like reticulum

getimiskon, 4 months ago

@gabriel I have been using opennic for a while (and I'm trying to advocate for it as much as I can), but the thing is that there won't be much adoption of it for a bunch of reasons. Still, it's good that exists.
@hazlin

gabriel, 4 months ago

@getimiskon
It's absolutely on my to-try list, since running my own dns (and other silly related ideas) is as well.
@hazlin

hazlin, 4 months ago

@gabriel @getimiskon What has surprised me the most about this side of the internet... is so much of it is URL only, I figured these sites would have some direct IP alternative access.

Though I'll confess, I don't know much about whether you can have more owner ship over an IP or a URL... (URLs feel like you absolutely don't own them xD)

getimiskon, 4 months ago

@hazlin the thing is that you don't have true ownership of any of those. For the IP, you rent that from your ISP and you rent the URL from a domain provider.
@gabriel

gabriel, 4 months ago

@hazlin

I don't know much about whether you can have more owner ship over an IP or a URL... (URLs feel like you absolutely don't own them xD)

I could be wrong, but nobody "owns" the numbers, for the same reason we both have 127.0.0.1 running. It's just that the providers we use will resolve 1.1.1.1 to cloudflare's destination.
Ever since I found out about arp spoofing I no longer think of IPs as fixed points.
@getimiskon

gabriel, 4 months ago

@hazlin

I don't know much about whether you can have more owner ship over an IP or a URL... (URLs feel like you absolutely don't own them xD)

I could be wrong, but nobody "owns" the numbers (as in, they're just registered like domains), for the same reason we both have 127.0.0.1 running. It's just that the providers we use will resolve 1.1.1.1 to cloudflare's destination.
Ever since I found out about arp spoofing I no longer think of IPs as fixed points.
@getimiskon

getimiskon, 4 months ago

@gabriel I haven't tried to run my own DNS, but I actually have my own OpenNIC domain, for quite some time. Maybe I'll write about it in the future, but never got to do that yet (maybe I started it and it's somewhere in my files, I don't know...)
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