-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 A big one is the privacy is way too good: every DNS request goes through multiple levels of caching and indirection, so there's no way to figure out who made the request to subject them additional targeting.
A connection-oriented protocol gets rid of all those protections, giving us seed operators monetisation opportunities like selling usage statistics, per-client targeted results, etc. We recently got rid of all the "call-home" functionality that previously gave this type of insight; a connecyion-oriented seed protocol gives us this right back. There's also this pesky problem of ISP's censoring DNS results with dumb automated systems to block malware - easily fixed with Gregory Maxwell's suggestion of permuting the results with XOR - but that kind of end-user driven solution really misses out in the needs of other Bitcoin stakeholders like law enforcement and marketing companies. On 29 December 2014 09:47:29 CET, Thomas Zander <tho...@thomaszander.se> wrote: >On Sunday 28. December 2014 18.25.29 Mike Hearn wrote: >> Lately we have been bumping up against the limitations of DNS as a >protocol >> for learning about the p2p network. > >Can you explain further where limitations and problems were hit? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: APG v1.1.1 iQFQBAEBCAA6BQJUoS94MxxQZXRlciBUb2RkIChsb3cgc2VjdXJpdHkga2V5KSA8 cGV0ZUBwZXRlcnRvZGQub3JnPgAKCRAZnIM7qOfwhQzHB/97jRf4iX0v/zDW0EkT 8My2ExCdOqwYToxqTF0DQhwBjVzh2OHH9tVFKPXfgg87xtIxYZjx70yQpw7O4anw 7E5eJpFRjTayafclzRupgMn2AVT9AN45zjxkEutAEO27mxJ2p0OQPkNKzVR38sGW 95siatZMej68jflr0o0JrRePaDn3jufZEYQ5IvS80HxEwjzLCx/qCnPKkiKEQjr0 EHbovZo/5DNmJys4an+hoZkPeDRGw30w86kxXaY2SQP8aefswfg6rTOcrfkuQQfQ AEYRZCZb6XxkL/gLU1dSgidswg+wgt/JW7QB+n6Z0fMGnX92EAxpwrvQUxDm55sC HhOT =dRuK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming! The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
