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Re:Decentralized DNS with the Handshake Naming System by ishanjain28 on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @01:21PM (#20627331)
Hey! So, I thought this was cool and wanted to try it out.

Compiled hnsd and tried to run it on local machine and an ec2 spot instance but it keeps failing to connect to it's (hardcoded?) peers.

I keep seeing this,

peer 354 (172.104.177.177:13038): failed connecting: connection refused peer 354 (172.104.177.177:13038): closing peer peer 354 (172.104.177.177:13038): closed peer peer 355 (139.162.183.168:13038): failed connecting: connection refused peer 355 (139.162.183.168:13038): closing peer peer 355 (139.162.183.168:13038): closed peer peer 353 (172.104.214.189:13038): failed connecting: connection refused peer 353 (172.104.214.189:13038): closing peer peer 353 (172.104.214.189:13038): closed peer peer 352 (173.255.209.126:13038): failed connecting: connection refused peer 352 (173.255.209.126:13038): closing peer peer 352 (173.255.209.126:13038): closed peer peer 357 (172.104.177.177:13038): failed connecting: connection refused peer 357 (172.104.177.177:13038): closing peer peer 357 (172.104.177.177:13038): closed peer peer 359 (139.162.183.168:13038): failed connecting: connection refused peer 359 (139.162.183.168:13038): closing peer peer 359 (139.162.183.168:13038): closed peer peer 358 (172.104.214.189:13038): failed connecting: connection refused peer 358 (172.104.214.189:13038): closing peer peer 358 (172.104.214.189:13038): closed peer peer 356 (173.255.209.126:13038): failed connecting: connection refused peer 356 (173.255.209.126:13038): closing peer peer 356 (173.255.209.126:13038): closed peer peer 363 (172.104.177.177:13038): failed connecting: connection refused peer 363 (172.104.177.177:13038): closing peer peer 363 (172.104.177.177:13038): closed peer peer 361 (139.162.183.168:13038): failed connecting: connection refused peer 361 (139.162.183.168:13038): closing peer peer 361 (139.162.183.168:13038): closed peer peer 362 (172.104.214.189:13038): failed connecting: connection refused peer 362 (172.104.214.189:13038): closing peer peer 362 (172.104.214.189:13038): closed peer peer 360 (173.255.209.126:13038): failed connecting: connection refused peer 360 (173.255.209.126:13038): closing peer peer 360 (173.255.209.126:13038): closed peer

Also, These IP address are either blocking ICMP ping messages or outright unreachable because ping fails to talk to them.

Re:Decentralized DNS with the Handshake Naming System by tynes on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @01:31PM (#20627439)
Unfortunately the seeder peers aren't up right now, see here for a fresh peers list

https://hnscan.com/peers

Re:Decentralized DNS with the Handshake Naming System by drexlspivey on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @04:43PM (#20629422)
502 Bad Gateway
Re:Decentralized DNS with the Handshake Naming System by ishanjain28 on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @04:49PM (#20629474)
I tried it right after he suggested doing that.

Try this command, It contains a list of peers that were working few hours back. Maybe they are still online.

  ./hnsd -r 127.0.0.1:53  -s ajgkxfe47u6wwyvyh7qixbdddvjxcqbs2oxwr5attq45yj72s5pcs@54.201.46.33:13038,akudgzg2wntfjucsodyvz44h76qae7xrtuix6wc6fc22cx5jll6fe@165.227.52.206:13038,ajaqq7jwqrwixmvl64tzi3qfi7ynj3hmmtzmkyubtrljh4mwmh7ie@165.22.151.242:13038,ap77bve4acntajehkvqc33bvlsi27ka6l2xte4fhn2ghuwx44fsxc@18.236.58.201:13038