Re: Internet services in Antarctica

[william manning <chinese.apricot () gmail com>]

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