hyper-dns lookup server

[martinheidegger]

When looking-up dns-entries-over-https (DOH) we are running into the issue that we have to trust the servers, which are hosted by google/cloudflare at the moment as they can handle any load (more servers can be found here - though they may not support json).

With this in mind I am wondering to "offload" the name lookup for decentralized names to a federated service that behaves equally but reduces complexity by doing things like the .well-known lookups, conflict resolution (multiple entries) and decentralized lookups (etherns, ...).

This way we can serve the same (possibly better) performance than we can get with a simple DoH lookup, while at the same time supporting decentralization.

[RangerMauve]

Who would define and upkeep the service? How do we avoid the service having the same problems as Google/Cloudflare and the such?

[martinheidegger]

The upkeep of the service(s) is conceptually equal to dns-over-https, aka. google/cloudflare. This would not change that particular problem. It should work in a way that it would only work as optional speed-up for operations that can happen on your device as well. (like: shared cache, which is what dns-over-https is to me as well in a way.)