From bjohansson@uni-hamburg.de Wed Oct 04 11:09:39 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!uni-hamburg!bjohansson From: bjohansson@uni-hamburg.de (Bruno Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: WTB/WTT: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Oct04.110939.8883@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Wed, 04 Oct 1995 11:09:39 GMT Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de 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. The Public Harmony Acts authorized the deployment of commercial broadcast satellites in geosynchronous orbit in 1983. -- Bruno Johansson Zyxel U-1496E @ 33,600 bps "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From etanaka@uni-hamburg.de Wed Oct 04 20:06:39 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!uni-hamburg!etanaka From: etanaka@uni-hamburg.de (Emi Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Oct04.200639.1555@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Wed, 04 Oct 1995 20:06:39 GMT References: <1995Oct04.110939.8883@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 12 In article <1995Oct04.110939.8883@uni-hamburg.de>, bjohansson@uni-hamburg.de (Bruno Johansson) 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! Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Emi Tanaka *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) - NetBSD 1.0