From atanaka@titech.ac.jp Tue Jan 03 04:44:19 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!titech!atanaka From: atanaka@titech.ac.jp (Astrid Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [INFO] The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Jan03.044419.1559@titech.ac.jp> Date: Tue, 03 Jan 1995 04:44:19 GMT Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Look closely at the Stardust relay table: there are 14 nodes, but only 10 countries listed. One routing path lists: 'cascade!transat!orbit-01!stardust'. Orbit-01? Are four of the relay nodes located on satellites? Nodes 01 to 10 correspond to US, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Germany, France, UK, USSR, Brazil, and Sweden. The Public Harmony Acts authorized the deployment of commercial broadcast satellites in geosynchronous orbit in 1983. -- Astrid Tanaka *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Atari TT030 - NetBSD 1.0 From rnovak@uni-hamburg.de Wed Jan 04 05:36:19 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!uni-hamburg!rnovak From: rnovak@uni-hamburg.de (Raj Novak) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [INFO] The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Jan04.053619.5282@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Wed, 04 Jan 1995 05:36:19 GMT References: <1995Jan03.044419.1559@titech.ac.jp> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jan03.044419.1559@titech.ac.jp>, atanaka@titech.ac.jp (Astrid Tanaka) writes: > Look closely at the Stardust relay table: there are 14 nodes, but only 10 countries listed. When the fire broke out in B2-114, the mainframe was uploading to a satellite uplink on the roof of Orion Tower. -- === Raj Novak === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik "We don't sign stars. We build them."