[benlivengood]

> Do you know any other way to bootstrap a peer to peer network without centralised authorities?

In IPv4 a client might have a chance at auto-discovering peers.

It's also not necessary to rely on a single centralized authority. There are many things (DNS, Encyclopedias, Linux kernel mirrors, etc.) where the majority of existing centralized authorities agree with each other.

[jimmydorry]

DNS is based around central authority though. Every root zone has name servers that serve as the authority. Their responses get cached at various levels but take those servers offline until TTLs start expiring and everything breaks.

What part of DNS do you feel is possible without a centralized authority?