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Old 12-11-2010, 02:15 PM   #72
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck View Post

Twitter's semi-seriously being considered as a possible backup to DNS, because enough computers are connected to it at any one time that it could, potentially, be used to re-create the entire structure of the internet if the big companies' servers go down.
Not going OT but where did you hear that? That sounds like a very shaky proposition since Twitter averages only 80 million unique visitors in a good month; there are are approximately 125 million total registered domain names as of the end of November and that's just the US-based TLDs.

In both technical and real-world terms, the only thing that can do the job of a DNS server is a DNS server.
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