Paul Frazee
Paul Frazee
:+1: mynosql
Good ideas. Maf and I have been discussing this. I'll let maf comment on what you're suggesting but I'll dump what I know has been done in this area: 1....
My 2 cents -- - I think an optional whitelist/blacklist is a good idea. It does degrade connectivity, but I think that's a choice the user can make for themselves....
@maxogden that's accurate. Hypercore proxies are somewhat similar to a peer whitelist, except that when your proxy doesn't already have a dat, you can command it to go get it....
@RangerMauve I think for this proposal to work, it has to be constrained to the discovery/DHT. So, the whitelist would be exposed by merit of having signed peers in the...
> The idea of using 'writers' is to automate this task. Rather than requiring separate management of seeders and writers, I figure we can adopt the default of simply combining...
We also support the `/.well-known/dat` solution over HTTPS, does that make a feasible alternative?
Well both of the solutions in DEP-0005 are stopgaps prior to a preferred solution of having a new DNS record type. I'm not *particularly* inclined to change our solution for...
> This type of service-discovery is exactly what the SRV record type is for. We may have missed that. We should look into it. > There are really good reasons...
We discussed this in the Dat WG. We want to explore `.well-known/dat` as the solution for people with the CNAME issue. Other than the performance cost and the HTTPS server...