NASA fires up the 'interplanetary internet'
The International Space Station has become home to the first node in the "interplanetary internet". The Delay Tolerant Networking (DTN) system uses "store-and-forward techniques within the network in order to compensate for intermittent link connectivity". As NASA explained during ground-based simulation tests last year, DTN " …
ping iss
Pinging iss.space.notverylocal [192.168.1.1] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time>1week TTL=fuhgeddaboutit
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time>1week TTL=fuhgeddaboutit
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time>1week TTL=fuhgeddaboutit
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time>1week TTL=fuhgeddaboutit
Ping statistics for 192.168.1.1:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss) ?
/coat
".....creating the interplanetary internet's second node....."
Presumably actually at least its third. I'm guessing that they already have one or more somethings down here capable of communicating with the existing thing up there. There wouldn't be much point otherwise.
My name is sub-ambassador GroL and I have recently inherited 35 million Flarbs which are in a bank on Mars. However I am not able to transfer the monkey off-world, due to the interplanetary financial crisis.
If you will send me your name, address and banking details I would like to transfer the money elsewhere, via your account. For your trouble, I am willing to pay you 3.5 million Flabs, which at the current rate of exchange is worth something in the region of $2million.
If you are unable to participate in this transaction, maybe you'd be interested in our special, patented treatment to elongate your Fnoop-gland.
We can aso improve your websites ratings in Galactoogle. Starting from 2000 Flarbs up to 10,000 Flarbs which guarantees to quadruple the number of hits you get everywhere from here to Ursa-Minor.
With bestest greetings
GroL
Quite a number of ADSL users with crappy lines could use this too ;)
404 error...
What do we do?"
"NASA fires up the 'interplanetary internet'
ISS hosts first 'Delay Tolerant Networking' node"
When I first glanced the sub heading, I thought it said
"ISS hosts first Delay Torrent Networking node" Pirates in Space... one day... maybe..
I'm fairly sure this was the original model proposed for the IMP traffic on the ARPA network, but they had issues with filling the storage available.
The more things change, the more they stay the same
Might be needing some new TLDs here...
iss.space
nasahq.earth.space
Then again maybe those are too short-sighted?
iss.near-earth-orbit.sol.milkyway.univ
Don't even get me started on parallel dimensions...
As well as the naming issues, we'll start running short of IPv6 addresses eventually and will have to roll out IPv8 in order to keep going!
@Pete 2: see icon ;)
...them difficult martians are using Novell running IPX/SPX?
Yeah, sounds familiar to me too.. So this would be the start of the backbone for a new zone? :)
back in the day when usenet ruled the world (i.e. late 80s) there was a tradition of various spoof official announcements being posted on Apr 1 ... I feel sure I remember one (but last time this subject came up I was unable to locate it in googles archive) which was an RFC (request for comments - the way new internet ideas/protocols were developed then by peer review/comment) on a proposal to add an extra level of domain name to allow for the net to expand to other planets (and their moons via sub-domains) in the solar system.
Once we get a working node on Mars, we'll need to call the present 'martian' IP ranges something else, then...
PB can move off planet and avoid all copyshite problems.
We now need a uTorrent tracker added to the ISS. Seen as how it is mostly russian, they won't mind sticking it to the US record companies.
kthxbye
Actually, why not launch a satellite with a big server in it and let that serve files ;)
It's Called... UUCP - with huge packets & windows!!!
;-)
Like any good satellite constellation (system), you will need several to provide uniform coverage over the globe... Might I suggest:
Caroline (of course and thanks!), Sherman, Hillary, Rosen, Valenti, Glickman, Murren, Grey, Wagner, Plank, Lynton, Stringer, Lynne, and Eisner to start?
This transmit once, fire and forget, is very nice, except if, for example, the outpost gets destroyed by a meteor and nobody will receive the transmissions they had stored for relay...
iss: lol
iss: @k3wl420 omg just took a dump and it floated!!!!!1 wtf
iss: @melissa14 hey babee wanna cyber
iss: omg wtf r0fl
iss: @missioncontrol roger
iss: lol I said 'roger'. loool
iss: rofltomato
I second that.
And add I'm quite looking forward to the host of nodes stretching from here to Mars enabling effective comms with our new colony. (Ok maybe optimistic but the parts are coming together)
Sometimes, just sometimes you get the small feeling that the future really is just around the corner.
What happens when it develops problems? can you unplug the ISS and plug it back in again? how will BT openreach vans get there? :P
That the ISS crew members can now get pr0n?
If yes, I'm ready to move into space away from this crazy planet!!
Paris because... well, you probably know
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