From epetrov@uni-hamburg.de Fri Dec 15 11:52:05 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!uni-hamburg!epetrov From: epetrov@uni-hamburg.de (Emi Petrov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [INFO] The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Dec15.115205.9918@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 11:52:05 GMT Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Look closely at the Stardust relay table: there are 14 nodes, but only 10 countries listed. Nodes 01 to 10 correspond to US, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Germany, France, UK, USSR, Brazil, and Sweden. 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? -- Emi Petrov *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Macintosh IIfx - NetBSD 1.0 From schoi@kth.se Fri Dec 15 17:18:05 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!kth!schoi From: schoi@kth.se (Steve Choi) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [INFO] The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Dec15.171805.6959@kth.se> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 17:18:05 GMT References: <1995Dec15.115205.9918@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Dec15.115205.9918@uni-hamburg.de>, epetrov@uni-hamburg.de (Emi Petrov) writes: > Look closely at the Stardust relay table: there are 14 nodes, but only 10 countries listed. > Nodes 01 to 10 correspond to US, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Germany, France, UK, USSR, Brazil, and Sweden. When the fire broke out in B2-114, the mainframe was uploading to a satellite uplink on the roof of Orion Tower. -- Steve Choi "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) / Linux 1.2.13 From aito@demon.co.uk Sun Dec 17 03:04:05 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!demon!aito From: aito@demon.co.uk (Anton Ito) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [INFO] The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Dec17.030405.3272@demon.co.uk> Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1995 03:04:05 GMT References: <1995Dec15.115205.9918@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Dec15.115205.9918@uni-hamburg.de>, epetrov@uni-hamburg.de (Emi Petrov) 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. -- Anton Ito | aito@demon.co.uk PGP Key fingerprint: 2DB1 752F 36D9 E403 "Keep the channels open." From sbrennan@u-tokyo.ac.jp Mon Dec 18 16:22:05 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!u-tokyo!sbrennan From: sbrennan@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Steve Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [INFO] The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Dec18.162205.8456@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 16:22:05 GMT References: <1995Dec15.115205.9918@uni-hamburg.de> <1995Dec17.030405.3272@demon.co.uk> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Dec17.030405.3272@demon.co.uk>, aito@demon.co.uk (Anton Ito) writes: > When the fire broke out in B2-114, the mainframe was uploading to a satellite uplink on the roof of Orion Tower. Node 14 is the master clock. That's why the decoded line for Row 14 says: 'ROW 14. NO JOKE.' -- Steve Brennan Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 19,200 bps "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." From dsokolov@cmu.edu Mon Dec 18 21:01:05 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!cmu!dsokolov From: dsokolov@cmu.edu (Dmitri Sokolov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [INFO] The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Dec18.210105.8639@cmu.edu> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 21:01:05 GMT References: <1995Dec15.115205.9918@uni-hamburg.de> <1995Dec17.030405.3272@demon.co.uk> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Dec17.030405.3272@demon.co.uk>, aito@demon.co.uk (Anton Ito) writes: > When the fire broke out in B2-114, the mainframe was uploading to a satellite uplink on the roof of Orion Tower. Satellite relays! That explains why the timecode delay on the Hamburg feed was exactly 240 milliseconds -- the speed of light to geostationary orbit! -- Dmitri Sokolov "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) / AmigaOS 3.1