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Dan Weinreb’s blog » Blog Archive » What Does the Proof of the “CAP theorem” Mean?: "the fact that DNS has been able to scale up so much is an huge engineering success that I feel is under-appreciated. We take DNS for granted, but it’s quite amazing how well it works! Since it went into service, the Internet has grown (in number of hosts) by a factor of roughly 50,000, and it still works. Not many other systems can say that.