IPs vs Hostnames?

Question

IPs vs Hostnames?

thefinn93 opened this issue 9 years ago · comments

Finn commented 9 years ago

Do we prefer IPs or DNS hostnames? or do we care? If we do, we should update tests.py to reflect that.

Jakub Sztandera · Answer 1 · Thu Nov 26 2015 15:51:11 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I think we should prefer IPs.

ansuz · Answer 2 · Fri Nov 27 2015 05:59:52 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

One more for IPs.

Finn · Answer 3 · Fri Nov 27 2015 11:07:39 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

So prefer (but not require) IPs?

kpcyrd · Answer 4 · Fri Nov 27 2015 15:14:32 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@thefinn93 +1

Kyler Chin · Answer 5 · Sat May 28 2016 19:11:38 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

prefer ip but not require. But then again.... people change ips....

ansuz · Answer 6 · Sat May 28 2016 20:08:36 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

in this duplicate issue (oops) we've generally agreed (though only among 3 people who run public peers) that public peers should probably be restricted to nodes with static IPs.

Two reasons:

one

prefer is a really vague verb that we can't really enforce (via tests), so it's especially worthwhile to have a policy of preferring.

two

Static IPs are a barrier to entry for public node operators wanting to host their credentials in this repository. I'm more interested in lowering the barrier to entry for new users.

DNS is one more thing that can fail, and these peers are here as a service for those looking to join the network, who are generally less experienced at troubleshooting a cjdns node.