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 <a...@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 > >
