Comment by dotancohen | Hacker News Reader

Comment by dotancohen | Hacker News Reader

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  > Dial keys. Not IPs.
  > It's a simple idea really, and it's the right abstraction for the future of the internet. IP addresses can break, without warning, and it's outside of your device's control. Keys, however, are created & controlled by you. They stay the same as your device moves, and are yours to throw away, or not. IP addresses can be private and inaccessible behind firewalls, but with iroh your device can be securely addressable no matter where it is.

To me that just sounds like a reimplementation of DNS. Maybe decentralised and maybe free and maybe not monomeric, but broadly the same.

The biggest difference that I can see is that keys are not making any claims about ownership, there's no global registry and it's p2p, which is a big upside

DNS doesn't work with constantly changing IPs, like you have on mobile networks. DNS also doesn't help when the IP is behind a NAT. So I really don't see how the two are similar at all.

No idea why this is downvoted, it's exactly the pitch for DNS. Others and I are asking the same question. There's no value proposition here.

Different network layer, no centralization, no authorities, DNS has nothing to do with making p2p connections, it's like the ballpark is not even in the same country

So it differs in implementation details, not in concept.

If you think that your phone number is equivalent to your home address then yes.

For the singular purpose of "I need to transfer a message to this person and I don't care what the latency is", then sure. That's how my bank treats them.

Bullshit, someone has to be an authority, even if it's p2p, then every connection is an authority.

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