What would be the utility of doing that? Shouldn't we first direct effort towards making the ROOT servers that reliable? And then there's always the networks used to *reach* these servers, which are often of questionable reliability, especially when a MAE is involved. Then again, that assumes that routers need military-grade DNS capability, which is an absurd concept to begin with. The routers should simply continue to operate normally (or slightly degraded) if DNS isn't available. Any other design is doomed to horrible race conditions. Stephen Karl Denninger wrote:
However, the nameserver infrastructure for such a TLD needs to go *far* beyond *any* existing TLD's nameserver infrastructure. You're talking here about things that need near, or even at, military-grade reliability levels of service.
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