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Re:Ask HN: Why are p2p CDNs not as prevalent? by shacharz on Monday October 24, 2016 @08:30AM (#12778198)
The problem with PeerCDN and other WebRTC based solutions is that they can't solve the DNS DDOS problem. Since the WebRTC API needs a server for the handshake to start communicating between 2 peers directly.
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Re:Ask HN: Why are p2p CDNs not as prevalent? by webscaleizfun on Monday October 24, 2016 @04:38PM (#12782657)
Eh, but the DNS server isn't necessarily the same as the bootstrapping server for the WebRTC API, and in most cases it generally would not be.
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