From skowalski@tum.de Tue Dec 26 12:39:00 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!tum!skowalski From: skowalski@tum.de (Sergei Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [INFO] The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Dec26.123900.8535@tum.de> Date: Tue, 26 Dec 1995 12:39:00 GMT Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Look closely at the Stardust relay table: there are 14 nodes, but only 10 countries listed. In the recovered telemetry dumps, Nodes 11-14 have IP/UUCP addresses that don't route through any known terrestrial ISP. One routing path lists: 'cascade!transat!orbit-01!stardust'. Orbit-01? Are four of the relay nodes located on satellites? When all 14 nodes are synchronized, where does the final relay terminate? -- Sergei Kowalski "Hold for relay." Acorn RiscPC 600 / SunOS 4.1.4 From mmuller@ox.ac.uk Wed Dec 27 08:46:00 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!ox!mmuller From: mmuller@ox.ac.uk (Mathieu Müller) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [INFO] The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Dec27.084600.5949@ox.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 08:46:00 GMT References: <1995Dec26.123900.8535@tum.de> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1995Dec26.123900.8535@tum.de>, skowalski@tum.de (Sergei Kowalski) writes: > Look closely at the Stardust relay table: there are 14 nodes, but only 10 countries listed. Satellite relays! That explains why the timecode delay on the Hamburg feed was exactly 240 milliseconds -- the speed of light to geostationary orbit! Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. -- Mathieu Müller "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." NeXTstation Turbo Color / TOS 4.04 From hlarsson@demon.co.uk Thu Dec 28 00:00:00 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!demon!hlarsson From: hlarsson@demon.co.uk (Heather Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [INFO] The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Dec28.000000.2464@demon.co.uk> Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 00:00:00 GMT References: <1995Dec26.123900.8535@tum.de> <1995Dec27.084600.5949@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Dec27.084600.5949@ox.ac.uk>, mmuller@ox.ac.uk (Mathieu Müller) writes: > Satellite relays! That explains why the timecode delay on the Hamburg feed was exactly 240 milliseconds -- the speed of light to geostationary orbit! > Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. When the fire broke out in B2-114, the mainframe was uploading to a satellite uplink on the roof of Orion Tower. -- Heather Larsson "Do not worship the copy." NeXTstation Turbo Color / System 7.5.1