[tor-talk] Hidden Services - how to implement something like Round Robin DNS?

[Jeremy Rand]

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On 09/28/2014 12:42 AM, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round-robin_DNS
> 
> The goal is to place Hidden Service in multiple data centers to
> prevent single point of failure.
> 

Namecoin would make this pretty easy.  Last I checked the current
Namecoin domain name spec only supports round-robin DNS for IPv4/IPv6
and not Tor/I2P, but there's consensus that that will be changed soon
to allow round-robin for Tor and I2P as well.  Note that to my
knowledge there aren't any implementations of that feature yet.

Namecoin would also give you human-readable names.

(Also Namecoin isn't anonymous, which might or might not be a problem
depending on the use case.)

- -Jeremy Rand
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