A List of IPNS Resources

expede · September 3, 2019, 4:04pm

As per @dholms, I’ll post a bunch of IPNS resources & commentary below

https://docs.ipfs.io/guides/concepts/ipns/

( very minimal)

dholms · September 4, 2019, 10:14pm

Looks like you can set the TTL for IPNS records in the config (IPNS.RecordLifetime): https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/blob/master/docs/config.md

expede · September 4, 2019, 10:27pm

Hmm that’s tricky though. It’s setting how long the value is cached for, which has the same trade-offs as DNS. I’m assuming (from other writers) that we’d need to rebroadcast after the TTL, which makes setting it low untenable. PubSub may be a good solution, but it’s experimental. 3Box has taken to running a separate server instead of using IPNS https://github.com/3box/3box-address-server

dholms · September 4, 2019, 10:33pm

Yup looks like I had that a bit wrong. This describes the difference between TTL (experimental) and RecordLifetime. Also this seems to suggest that 24hr is the absolute max record lifetime.