From bvasiliev@berkeley.edu Fri Oct 18 05:29:50 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!berkeley!bvasiliev From: bvasiliev@berkeley.edu (Bastien Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1996Oct18.052950.4481@berkeley.edu> Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 05:29:50 GMT Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 Where are Nodes 11, 12, 13, and 14 physically located? One routing path lists: 'cascade!transat!orbit-01!stardust'. Orbit-01? Are four of the relay nodes located on satellites? In the recovered telemetry dumps, Nodes 11-14 have IP/UUCP addresses that don't route through any known terrestrial ISP. The Public Harmony Acts authorized the deployment of commercial broadcast satellites in geosynchronous orbit in 1983. -- Bastien Vasiliev -- UC Berkeley Department of EECS "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From msmirnov@stanford.edu Fri Oct 18 10:14:50 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!stanford!msmirnov From: msmirnov@stanford.edu (Mikhail Smirnov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1996Oct18.101450.4054@stanford.edu> Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 10:14:50 GMT References: <1996Oct18.052950.4481@berkeley.edu> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 12 In article <1996Oct18.052950.4481@berkeley.edu>, bvasiliev@berkeley.edu (Bastien Vasiliev) writes: > Where are Nodes 11, 12, 13, and 14 physically located? > One routing path lists: 'cascade!transat!orbit-01!stardust'. Orbit-01? Are four of the relay nodes located on satellites? Satellite relays! That explains why the timecode delay on the Hamburg feed was exactly 240 milliseconds -- the speed of light to geostationary orbit! If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- Mikhail Smirnov | msmirnov@stanford.edu PGP Key fingerprint: 0887 BF4F 4BEE 817C "Keep the channels open." From cnilsson@unam.mx Sun Oct 20 10:52:50 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!unam!cnilsson From: cnilsson@unam.mx (Callum Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1996Oct20.105250.6498@unam.mx> Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 10:52:50 GMT References: <1996Oct18.052950.4481@berkeley.edu> <1996Oct18.101450.4054@stanford.edu> Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Oct18.101450.4054@stanford.edu>, msmirnov@stanford.edu (Mikhail Smirnov) writes: > Satellite relays! That explains why the timecode delay on the Hamburg feed was exactly 240 milliseconds -- the speed of light to geostationary orbit! Satellite relays! That explains why the timecode delay on the Hamburg feed was exactly 240 milliseconds -- the speed of light to geostationary orbit! -- Callum Nilsson | cnilsson@unam.mx PGP Key fingerprint: C4E2 7139 B887 7428 "Keep the channels open." From asokolov@uu.net Sun Oct 20 12:38:50 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!uu!asokolov From: asokolov@uu.net (Amy Sokolov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1996Oct20.123850.3516@uu.net> Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 12:38:50 GMT References: <1996Oct18.052950.4481@berkeley.edu> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Oct18.052950.4481@berkeley.edu>, bvasiliev@berkeley.edu (Bastien Vasiliev) writes: > Where are Nodes 11, 12, 13, and 14 physically located? When the fire broke out in B2-114, the mainframe was uploading to a satellite uplink on the roof of Orion Tower. -- Amy Sokolov "When every node is whole, the channel opens." Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) / Linux 1.2.13