Am I the only one that worries them solving a OSI layer 4 problem with a layer 7 application? I mean Firefox is nice in all but what about the rest of client apps relies on a traditional DNS gateway?
no, it's not an ideal solution. but i don't see why you're worried. if you want to worry, worry about the governments and/or corporations censoring the DNS system. this is a hack to get around a shitty situation, but it works.
It's a stopgap. The underlying problem of securing IP/TCP and DNS against government tampering is much harder. People are working on it, but meantime it's great that there are workarounds.
I don't follow it closely enough to say. Check out http://www.reddit.com/r/darknetplan - while they're mostly talking about it and not doing much, there's regularly links there to other various projects. I don't expect much to come out of the Reddit discussions directly, but it's a useful place to keep an eye on what is happening elsewhere.
Don't expect a quick solution - until/unless censorship in more places get significantly worse, this is still largely fringe stuff that doesn't see a huge amount of real work invested in it. And don't necessarily expect a single solution. It'll be years before we get to a stage where there's anything resembling a "standard" system for this.
I think this comment on that subreddit reflect my opinion of the 'darknetplan':
What I think you have here is a group of kids with a very very basic entry level knowledge of networking let along WAN routing and network topologies. Maybe some of them have loaded ddwrt or tomato onto a wrt54g and thought they were a ccie, but it looks like a lot of 'hey woman this is a good idea to stick it to comcast and verizon!' and not a whole lot of actual engineering or planning.
That's what you get when you have an open community that thousands of people sign up to.
That is why I think it is more interesting as a place that aggregates links about other projects than as a project in itself. It's a decent place for getting an idea what is going on elsewhere (in the open at least). Not so much if you're looking for a community that's actually implementing something.
