Cooperative Domain Name System

&gt; FAQ: CoDoNS Deployment:<p>&gt; I am interested in running a CoDoNS node locally. Can I join the CoDoNS overlay? [...]<p>&gt; [..] Please let us know that you want to join by email and we will give you an update on project status and when we expect to ship you a bootable CD.<p>My first thought is that this project must be quite old as sending programs through CD might be faster than sending them through the Internet.

This looks interesting. I don&#x27;t know enough about networking to make an informed comment. It looks like a distributed, self-healing alternative to DNS. But it seems like it would run into the same problem that most P2P systems have, right? If enough malicious nodes hop on the network, wouldn&#x27;t they be able to direct traffic wherever they wanted?

I remember hearing about this project quite some time ago. I am not sure it is still active. The last papers about the project are from <i>2006</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.cornell.edu&#x2F;people&#x2F;egs&#x2F;beehive&#x2F;paper.php" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.cornell.edu&#x2F;people&#x2F;egs&#x2F;beehive&#x2F;paper.php</a>

I could not locate source code. I just don&#x27;t see a closed source DNS system gaining global traction.

Cjdns and the associated Hyperboria network seem to solve the same problem, but they have a working implementation and active users.

If it works alongside the existing DNS, let&#x27;s make it happen. These new DDoS attacks are causing a great deal of collateral damage.

A real alternative is to push ipfs and ipns