• unitedwithme@lemmy.today
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    1 month ago

    Dude, just… No. Nobody is killing DNS. You can’t remove that integral part of the system without a strong replacement worldwide.

    “We’ll have to ask the IP of the website we want to visit” Ask what, exactly? DNS is the resolver of domain name to IP, so unless everyone’s going to keep a spreadsheet of the IPs they want to visit, you need DNS.

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      1 month ago

      DNS is the resolver of domain name to IP, so unless everyone’s going to keep a spreadsheet of the IPs they want to visit, you need DNS

      It’s the point of the article, the DNS won’t answer you in France when the website is on the banned list therefore if you want to visit the website you’ll need to find out the IP linked to the hostname for example by asking:

      Ask what, exactly?

      the IP (As I said)