Recent DDoS attack on DNS: A strong case for Namecoin-type protocols?

[Amitabh S]

Would namecoin or something decentralized have prevented this attack?
https://www.wired.com/2016/10/internet-outage-ddos-dns-dyn/

[Hakari]

The only way you fight power is with power, the more nodes your opponent has for an attack the more ram you need, centalized or distributed.

[Coding Enthusiast]

I have made a topic about something similar to this a while back but it was buried...

Build website using Bitcoin and Torrent technology

Link to the project: https://github.com/elendirx/web2web

Everything is peer to peer.

[john-connor]

Would namecoin or something decentralized have prevented this attack?
https://www.wired.com/2016/10/internet-outage-ddos-dns-dyn/

DNS is decentralised by design. Run your own server and these things won't impact you. In regards to Namecoin, the network is too small (173 Nodes) to withstand DoS attacks. If Namecoin nodes were Incentivised more people would run them.

[Kepasa]

DNS is decentralised by design. Run your own server and these things won't impact you. In regards to Namecoin, the network is too small (173 Nodes) to withstand DoS attacks. If Namecoin nodes were Incentivised more people would run them.

Namecoin- Dot-Bit-enabled websites are immune to these problems, because instead of the phone book being a corporation or government, the digital phonebook is on your own computer. Bitcoin technology ensures that every user in the world has the same phonebook data on their computer, without anyone being able to illegitimately change that phonebook data.(https://bit.namecoin.org/)

And why do we need a many Namecoin nodes?

[asse.sauga]

That is interesting, how DNS master key is managed and secured: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/28/seven-people-keys-worldwide-internet-security-web

[pepethefrog]

That is interesting, how DNS master key is managed and secured: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/28/seven-people-keys-worldwide-internet-security-web

Yes, that is indeed scary.
Until you realize that you can just skip domain names and use IP's directly.
Ofcourse any convenience disappears with it, but alas.... DNS is just here for convenience.