IPs vs Hostnames?

Question

IPs vs Hostnames?

thefinn93 opened this issue 9 years ago · 6 comments

thefinn93 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.

Answer 1 · 2015-11-26T07:51:11.000Z

I think we should prefer IPs.

Answer 2 · 2015-11-26T21:59:52.000Z

One more for IPs.

Answer 3 · 2015-11-27T03:07:39.000Z

So prefer (but not require) IPs?

Answer 4 · 2015-11-27T07:14:32.000Z

@thefinn93 +1

Answer 5 · 2016-05-28T11:11:38.000Z

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

Answer 6 · 2016-05-28T12:08:36.000Z

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.