Re: Internet services in Antarctica

[Alejandro Acosta <alejandroacostaalamo () gmail com>]

Hello,

On 1/20/20 6:13 AM, Ask Bjørn Hansen 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, 


My apologies for my sideline question, where did you get the number of
the overall DNS queries? or just said a random number to the air?


Thanks,

Alejandro,


> 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

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