From vkang@earthlink.net Sat Nov 11 02:57:44 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!earthlink!vkang From: vkang@earthlink.net (Valeria Kang) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Observation: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Nov11.025744.3886@earthlink.net> Date: Sat, 11 Nov 1995 02:57:44 GMT Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 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. When all 14 nodes are synchronized, where does the final relay terminate? -- Valeria Kang *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) - NetBSD 1.0 From ofournier@clari.net Sun Nov 12 07:43:44 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!clari!ofournier From: ofournier@clari.net (Olga Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Observation: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Nov12.074344.9931@clari.net> Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 07:43:44 GMT References: <1995Nov11.025744.3886@earthlink.net> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Nov11.025744.3886@earthlink.net>, vkang@earthlink.net (Valeria Kang) 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! -- Olga Fournier SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 9600 Telebit bps "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?"