Comment by 🐙 norayr
Re: "Gemini search engines and Yggdrasil"
we were experimenting recently with the folks of yggdrasil xmpp muc, and many set up an xmpp server on yggdrasil. even without a canonical dns record, but with domain names inferred from yggdrasil ip address.
see my post about s2s_meshv6alt
Mar 28 · 6 weeks ago
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📻 eugene [OP/mod] · Mar 28 at 21:09:
norayr.am opens, though I'm not sure if it's over Yggdrasil or directly, because it has an ipv4 clearnet address too. I set Lagrange to prefer ipv6, and it still opened, which presumably means it opened the Yggdrasil ip... Forcing `gg` to open the IPv6 end with `/etc/hosts` worked, so yeah, it's reachable.
I'm pretty sure it's not my Yggdrasil setup as such, I use Yggdrasil internally very heavily. Both of the Armenian domain names respond properly when I turn off SOCKS. Which I have to keep turned on for other reasons. Guess I need to muck about to make sure the `200::` get routed correctly *after* getting resolved too.
but with domain names inferred from yggdrasil ip address.
...Yeah, meship/meshnamed are also an option...
🐙 norayr [mod] · Mar 28 at 23:52:
to tell more about the mentioned solution, it all started with
i wrote
unlike yggns or meshname, where encoded IP usually identifies the node that is authoritative for a zone, and that node runs regular DNS for its namespace, in our rn + v6.alt scheme, the encoded name itself already contains the target IPv6 address, so the resolution is much more direct.
i guess i need to make a forum post about it.
🐙 norayr [mod] · Mar 29 at 00:23:
back to topic, maybe it worth to ask @acidus to also crawl yggdrasil gemini capsules, and in search results mark somehow that the link is from yggdrasil, not clearnet.
📻 eugene [OP/mod] · Mar 29 at 03:49:
I'm considering putting an Antenna in the Yggdrasil tree myself, actually... 😉 There aren't enough nodes to make searching them and marking the results worth it, IMHO, but an aggregator just for them is easy.
Original Post
Gemini search engines and Yggdrasil — So I had a random thought: Do any search engines exist that actually will crawl an Yggdrasil capsule? That is, there's no doubt it's possible if they're on the network themselves, but none of the big ones I know seem to be, or say they are.