Re:RFC 9498 on the GNU Name System
by crotchfire on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @02:42PM
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> IPFS is particularly bad latency-wise I'm not sure how much of that is name lookup
All of that is due to their mistake of trying to use a sessionful protocol for their DHT.
Bittorrent got this right -- sessionless DHT -- which is why IPFS remains a rounding error compared to bittorrent, and will remain so until they adopt a sessionless DHT.
All of that is due to their mistake of trying to use a sessionful protocol for their DHT.
Bittorrent got this right -- sessionless DHT -- which is why IPFS remains a rounding error compared to bittorrent, and will remain so until they adopt a sessionless DHT.