Automatically add the author of an IPNS record to the set of peers to query

[Stebalien]

One potential hack to speed up IPNS is to simply add the IPNS key to the list of peers to query. We'll still need to find the peer but this may speedup some queries.

[vyzo]

Wouldn't this end up connecting all querying peers to the originating peer? That's probably undesirable.

[Stebalien]

@vyzo yes however, that kind of thing can already happen. That is, if you're a long-lived peer close to a a popular key, you'll get a lot of connections and requests for that key. The primary difference in this case is that the key in question is your peer ID (which you presumably care about).

[Stebalien]

(however, this could be problematic if that peer isn't a DHT node)

[whyrusleeping]

@Stebalien this is related to the question of under what circumstances should we trust a peer as the ultimate source of truth for their ipns record.

[Stebalien]

Yes, somewhat. While this would technically centralize a bit, it would massively speed up IPNS resolution in many cases.