This looks interesting. I don't know enough about networking to make an informed comment. It looks like a distributed, self-healing alternative to DNS. But it seems like it would run into the same problem that most P2P systems have, right? If enough malicious nodes hop on the network, wouldn't they be able to direct traffic wherever they wanted?
Just for reference, it is called pseudospoofing or, using a recent buzzword, Sybil attack.
I think this problem is orthogonal to actual P2P protocols. It is rare that such protection is deeply integrated into the protocol itself, the most popular one is probably a GNUnet with its economic system. On the other hand, solution from Tor with its directory services and FreeNet with F2F mode can be adopted by any P2P network.
> I am interested in running a CoDoNS node locally. Can I join the CoDoNS overlay? [...]
> [..] Please let us know that you want to join by email and we will give you an update on project status and when we expect to ship you a bootable CD.
My first thought is that this project must be quite old as sending programs through CD might be faster than sending them through the Internet.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 31.0 ms ] threadI think this problem is orthogonal to actual P2P protocols. It is rare that such protection is deeply integrated into the protocol itself, the most popular one is probably a GNUnet with its economic system. On the other hand, solution from Tor with its directory services and FreeNet with F2F mode can be adopted by any P2P network.
> I am interested in running a CoDoNS node locally. Can I join the CoDoNS overlay? [...]
> [..] Please let us know that you want to join by email and we will give you an update on project status and when we expect to ship you a bootable CD.
My first thought is that this project must be quite old as sending programs through CD might be faster than sending them through the Internet.