[derN3rd]

Wouldn't it be simpler and easier for clients to implement when they would use the TXT to store a magnet link and host the file via webtorrents?

Maybe such a solution already exists, but I couldn't find it

[whalesalad]

Nope. How could you get any easier than plain DNS? That would require a torrent client and bittorrent protocol. The beauty of this hack is that it exists on top of the ubiquitous DNS system.

[dannyobrien]

I think the obvious match here is how IPFS can use a dnslink TXT file to point to the content-addressable top of an IPFS-distributed static web https://docs.ipfs.tech/concepts/dnslink/ . This is how a lot of dweb/web3 websites maintain and advertise a non-http mirror. It works out of the box for sites served using https://distributed.press/ (non-commercial, open source) or https://fleek.co/ (hosted).

If you use Brave, or have the IPFS browser extension, you can access sites like https://ffdweb.org/ as an option, or preferentially.

[imoverclocked]

It's not far from OpenAFS which uses SRV records to point to fileservers. It's not magnet/torrent but it's certainly DNS discovery for data on a different protocol.

[tonyg]

Well, I'm not sure adding a webtorrent implementation counts as simpler for clients than just TXT record retrieval.