What the hell does that mean? OK – In layman's language – The Cavalry is coming…….

Every so often a piece of software comes along that has the
ability to change the world.

Napster proved it by causing a permanent disruption to the music
industries monopoly on physical distribution.

Google have proved that, by mastering the “search” genre.

Google isn’t software – you retort…… Ahhhh, but it is – it’s
just it doesn’t run it’s database on your machine – although I’m awaiting the
Google “P2P Database search” product – it must be close to being released……..

Think Seti
project.

In 1994, I starting caching the “J” Server in Sydney
Australia to save the bandwidth of each 256 bit DNS lookup request for embedded
page urls.

As a consequence, by March 1995, we were saving around 2 Gb
per day of bandwidth and everyone thought we (Ausnet) had a great big network.

We did’nt. We cheated. We cached web pages, we cached DNS
and we peered with anyone that would agree to swap data with us.

Recently I found another such “cheat” that is slowly but
surely going to have more impact on the world than even Napster had.

Why? Because DNS is the central resource on which the
Internet depends.

If I was President Obama, I would just mandate the military
acquisition and control of all DNS servers (there are only 13).

But of course, most countries internet population have
already foreseen this eventuality as a potential threat to our internet freedom
so they have emulated the Koltai DNS cache by caching all Root servers.

So does P2P work if you put all the DNS servers behind a
firewall ?

Well, eventually, no. Unless, of course if you set-up your
own P2PDNS, just like these guys……

P2PNS: A Secure
Distributed Name Service for P2PSIP

We live in interesting times – good luck content guys – the world
is about to change – again.

References:

P2PNS: A Secure
Distributed Name Service for P2PSIP, Ingmar Baumgart, Proceedings
of the Sixth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and
Communications (PerCom 2008), Hong Kong, China, p. 480-485, Mar 2008. [pdf][bibtex][slides]
 

Transparent Mobile IP: an Approach and Implementation“,
A. Giovanardi, G. Mazzini,

IEEE GLOBECOM'97, Nov. 1997, Phoenix,
USA, pp. 1861-1865.

“Single-Hop and
Dual-Hop Routing Strategies for Polling WLAN Systems,” A.
Giovanardi, G. Mazzini, IEEE
GLOBECOM'98, Nov. 1998, Sydney, Australia,
pp. 1805-1810.

“Adhoc Routing using BSD” Koltai TP August 1997.

Resources:

Ummm – Geeks only folks, it requires a little bit of unix “tweaking”.

http://www.p2pns.org/wiki/P2pnsDownload

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