Summer Updates, Roadmap, and More
Summer Updates, Roadmap, and More
Recent Updates
The eth.limo team has had a very busy summer! We have been working hard to improve the performance and reliability of our service while adding new features based on community feedback. We are happy to announce that we now support the following enhancements:
Cross Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) and ENSIP-10 wildcards. CCIP is an important advancement for ENS resolution across chains. The eth.limo service is now able to resolve names on any L2 or chain that properly implements the CCIP gateway resolver service. Test it out with https://offchainexample.eth.limo.
Automated, on-demand certificates for ENS subdomains. Once you submit an HTTPS request for your name (i.e. https://foo.bar.eth.limo), we'll attempt to issue the certificate in the background. Usually this process takes 1-2m and during that time you might need to keep refreshing the page in your browser. This is a one-time process and once the certificate has been issued you'll be able to visit your subdomain on eth.limo.
Skynet storage support - In addition to IPFS and IPNS, Skynet accessible content can now be resolved. More information can be found here.
IPv6 support - All eth.limo loadbalancers now support both IPv4 and IPv6. This greatly reduces latency for mobile devices.
IPFS peering with all major content providers (Fleek, Web3 Storage, Cloudflare, etc…).
Accelerated DHT (Distributed Hash Table) support for IPFS. This results in faster retrieval times and a better user experience.
Nimi profiles - anyone with an ENS domain can simply append .limo in their browser to resolve a personalized Nimi profile. This pulls in your ENS avatar, text records and even displays POAPs! Users can effortlessly obtain a social landing page with no technical knowledge required. Learn more about the Nimi implementation here.
DNS over HTTPS (DoH) resolver. We now offer an easy to use DNS resolver for ENS domains. The DoH resolver can be integrated with applications for native ENS resolution, or even your browser! We feature both JSON and DNS wire format responses with DNSLink support. This means you can configure your local IPFS client to resolve ENS domains directly from us with the following command:
ipfs config --json DNS.Resolvers '{"eth.": "https://dns.eth.limo/dns-query"}'For example if you then requested vitalik.eth, a DNS query would be constructed (https://dns.eth.limo/dns-query?name=vitalik.eth&type=TXT) which would return:
"dnslink=/ipfs/QmQhCuJqSk9fF58wU58oiaJ1qbZwQ1eQ8mVzNWe7tgLNiD/"Which would instruct your IPFS client to retrieve the CID above. Consult our documentation for implementation details.
Privacy Recap
The eth.limo team respects our end users’ privacy. We never log your IP address (IPv4 or IPv6) or X-Forwarded-For HTTP headers (this header is used when your request is forwarded from an upstream proxy), which means all request data is completely anonymized. Additionally we terminate all HTTPS connections at the application layer, which prevents cloud providers from inspecting the contents of each request/response.
Next Steps
We are excited to announce that we have begun working on the following new features:
HTTP object caching - We’ll cache static content for you, leading to faster retrieval times for infrequently updated files, like scripts or images.
Ethereum Swarm content resolution support.
Traffic reports - view how many requests your ENS dwebsite has received.
Deployment tooling - Choose which versions of content you want to serve prior to going “all in” on an IPFS release. Quickly roll back or fail-over in the event of a bug or vulnerability.
“Local Limo” aka Chauffeur - Run a local instance of the eth.limo resolver, allowing you to access ENS domains in any browser without intermediation.
Privacy friendly RPC services - Take advantage of eth.limo’s privacy policy and deployment tooling for pure RPC requests.
Distributed DB pinning for OrbitDB and AvionDB.
Testnet support - Experiment with ENS domains on Ethereum test networks.
Improved SEO experience.
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