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List:       namedroppers
Subject:    Re: dns vs gnutella
From:       Erik Rozendaal <erik () nlnetlabs ! nl>
Date:       2005-03-14 8:34:08
Message-ID: 42354C80.50301 () nlnetlabs ! nl
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Alexis Yushin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering if anybody ever thought of using a gnutella-like technology
> in lieu of the traditional dns to achieve the same functionality.

Distributed hash tables (DHTs) are getting a lot of attention in the 
peer-to-peer community and some research has been done on implementing 
DNS on top of a DHT.  For example: 
<URL:http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/chord/papers/ddns.pdf>.

Erik

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