My intention is to use IPFS as a distributed database with a local-first approach. Programs store and retrieve data (as IPLD nodes) via the IPFS daemon on single computer, and if that computer happens to have a network connection, the same database access works across the network. The main point is …

I believe in the current iteration of IPNS requires that you have DHT/peer connections to work and distribute the records. You might be able to try using IPNS PubSub, I’m not sure if this also has the same issue, but I’m pretty sure it does. Currently IPNS does have some speed issues, however using …

Thanks for your reply! You confirm what I figured out about how IPNS works today. PubSub won’t change that because it only accelerates the transmission of changes in IPNS bindings to peers who have already resolved a name a first time. Your workaround is indeed a bit hacky, but does look very usefu…

Yup that’s pretty much the basic idea, and it will definitely get rid of the no peers found error message. It’s an optimization yea, basically it’s just the bare-minimum components needed to do IPNS publishing (libp2p host, datastore, peerstore, keystore), as opposed to go-ipfs which has all of that…

OK, thanks for confirming my suspicion. I’ll try compiling your lightweight daemon and see if I can get it to work!

Not a problem, if you want an example of how I use it within my own products, here’s an implementation of it within my pinning service https://github.com/RTradeLtd/Temporal/blob/master/queue/ipns.go

Thanks for answering the question for which I was just about to create another thread: are there any pinning services that also propose IPNS? I’ll check out temporal.cloud!

I have a MongoDB-backed WebApp that is kind of a mix between Social Media, Wiki, CMS, etc. It’s a tree-like DB. My vision (IPFS is not yet fully integrated), is to have the MongoDB be the “cache” where information pulled from IPFS web is stored. I am soon planning to write a whitepaper on what I wan…

https://temporal.cloud is a pinning service that supports it :smile: AFAIK there’s not many that do, mostly because IPNS can be pretty slow at times.

I set up my user account on temporal.cloud and started pinning an publishing. Works fine, the interface is overall clear. Except for the “TTL” parameter for publishing, but then the IPFS documentation isn’t that much more explicit about it either. What surprises me with IPNS is the obsession with l…

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Magik6k has a response to a question I asked here and has a pretty good summary of what TTL is used for.

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How to use IPNS in a local-first setting?

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