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ANDNA: Abnormal Netsukuku Domain Name Anarchy

Abnormal Netsukuku Domain Name Anarchy (ANDNA), similar to the Domain Name System (DNS), is the distributed, non-hierarchical and decentralised system of hostname management in Netsukuku. The ANDNA database is scattered inside all the Netsukuku and works in the following way: in order to resolve a hostname, we just have to calculate its hash. The hash is nothing more than a number (IP), and the node related to that IP is called andna_hash_node. The hash_node will keep a small database, which associates all the hostnames related to it with the IP of the node, which has registered the same hostnames.