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Originally Posted by devilsadvocate
Not going OT but where did you hear that? That sounds like a very shaky proposition
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Semi-seriously in the sense of, "hey, Twitter has a LOT of activity... umm... could we do something useful with all those connected computers?" Not in the sense of "here's an actual plan to do something DNS-related with Twitter users."
The impression I got was a conversation that went something like, "hah ha, twitter's so big and active it could do DNS hosting... nah, don't be silly... wait, Twitter is awfully big..." Nothing cohesive, just actual thought in the direction of possibilities.
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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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There's a group working on distributed DNS:
Dot-p2p. I am not a computer geek; I don't know how DNS works; I have no idea how feasible or not this is. I am just fascinated by the idea of "taking back the internet" from large telecommunications companies.