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Re: Internet services in Antarctica
From: william manning <chinese.apricot () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 08:28:04 -0800
from 1995-1996, i placed a DNS root server in Antarctica. Funding for the bandwidth cost was high enough that I pulled the service. Never really delved into the actual requirement for "real-time" interactions that could not be localized. caching and batch transfers cover most of the need. for more recent work on high bandwidth delay environments, check out: http://ipnsig.org/ /wm On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 2:15 AM Ask Bjørn Hansen <ask () develooper com> wrote:
Hi, I have a hobby project running DNS service to people looking for NTP public servers. I noticed that the DNS servers apparently get ~5 thousand queries per day from IPs that the GeoIP database we use claim are in in Antarctica. It’s less than 0.0001% of the overall DNS queries, but it made me curious what it’d take to make the service work better there. I imagine the internet service is fragmented between the various stations with each being best connected to a particular country? Does anyone have contacts there that I could talk to? I imagine (some of?) the stations would have a local NTP service as part of their compute facilities. Ask
Current thread:
- Internet services in Antarctica Ask Bjørn Hansen (Jan 20)
- Re: Internet services in Antarctica Karl Auer (Jan 20)
- Re: Internet services in Antarctica Alejandro Acosta (Jan 20)
- Re: Internet services in Antarctica Mike Bolitho (Jan 20)
- Re: Internet services in Antarctica william manning (Jan 20)
- Re: Internet services in Antarctica Eric Kuhnke (Jan 20)