Service Discovery about gun HOT 4 CLOSED

You'll have to talk more about this at the meet up. I don't have much experience in this area.

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consul exists. Don't reinvent the wheel.

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I've been thinking about implementing something like this using the DHT to allow peers to announce their participation in a given data mesh. feross/torrent-discovery could cover that use-case pretty easily once Gun has WebRTC support.

The main concerns I have are name collisions and data security. A private DHT or tracker setup could mitigate both of these, but it would be nice to be able to safely use the mainline DHT.

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WebRTC still unfortunately is very difficult to work with (I had simple-peer working with people geographically nearby but not across large distances).

Anyways, service discovery should be a layer on top of gun, like a driver/adapter, not gun core itself. So I'm gonna label this as a feature request (although will be pretty important) and ask to have it put in: https://github.com/gundb/feature-requests and close it here (since it isn't a bug in core). Thanks!

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