[HN Gopher] A Name Resolver for the Distributed Web
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       A Name Resolver for the Distributed Web
        
       Author : warenhor
       Score  : 30 points
       Date   : 2021-06-26 12:36 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (blog.cloudflare.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (blog.cloudflare.com)
        
       | musicale wrote:
       | > A Centralized Name Resolver for the Distributed Web
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       | ftfy
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       | Be that as it may, it seems mostly fine for cloudflare to cache
       | distributed content and to help with lookup. If IPFS etc. end up
       | depending on them too much then cloudflare can be a point of
       | failure if they pull the plug.
        
       | dane-pgp wrote:
       | While I understand the cynicism, I think that this point is
       | critical:
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       | "It means that while Cloudflare provides resolution-as-a-service,
       | none of the components has to be trusted."
       | 
       | Of course it would be better if there were multiple
       | interchangeable "resolution-as-a-service" providers, and even
       | better if no one needed to use those services because their OS
       | provided the functionality locally, but we're unfortunately a
       | long way from that, and we shouldn't let the perfect be the enemy
       | of the good while pursuing that goal.
        
       | jorams wrote:
       | Maybe I'm being cynical, but it feels weird to read a post about
       | all this "decentralized web" technology from a company built
       | entirely on centralizing the web.
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       | Then near the end they introduce their central gateway to this
       | decentralized web, and tell us that another similar gateway is
       | merging into theirs.
       | 
       | I'm not against introducing more options for decentralization
       | into browsers, but I don't think you're going to do that by
       | making it unnecessary through central gateways.
        
         | ampdepolymerase wrote:
         | They want to be the Gmail of dWeb.
        
       | supermatt wrote:
       | Any reason why IPFS addresses cant be handled by "regular" DNS.
       | There doesn't seem to be any technical limitation. Why aren't
       | cloudflare doing that instead of jumping on the blockchain/ENS
       | hype train.
        
         | detaro wrote:
         | The article covers all that.
        
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