myrmepropagandistIf an astronaut sent you an email or loaded your website, could you tell from the IP or anything?
AI6YR Ben
That one Jewish network nerd@ai6yr @futurebird I’m way too lazy right now to do the speed of light calculations. But my intuition is that they are going back to how some stuff worked in the 80s. Cause the latency is going to be too much for modern versions of protocols. I would love to get a look at the network drawing for how they’re doing it and what protocols they are using internally
Matthew Miller
Vive Levant@sng @ai6yr @futurebird one sure thing is, despite it could handle the delay, neither RFC 1149 (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1149) nor RFC 2549 (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2549) would apply.
itgrrl 
@Vive_Levant @sng @ai6yr @futurebird those are two of my favourite RFCs! 😜
in seriousness though, #NASA has done a lot of work on delay-tolerant networking and there are several related RFCs including RFCs 4838 & 5050
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4838
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5050
#DTN
^ what??!? it’s totally normal to have favourite RFCs, shut up! 🤪
@itgrrl @sng @ai6yr @futurebird I’m sure you know, but is the rest of the fediverse aware that rfc 1149 was implemented in 2001 and a desastrously inefficient ping was successfully executed by a Norwegian LUG in Bergen ?
Desastrously inefficient success :
9 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 55% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 3211900.8/5222806.6/6388671.9 ms
AstraLuma@sng @ai6yr @futurebird LEO? no, it's fine
The moon? 1.3s, which isn't insurmountable but sure is annoying
@astraluma @sng @ai6yr @futurebird so long as you manage to sort out the “500-mile email” problem… 🙃
@itgrrl @astraluma @sng @futurebird Ha!
Funny story, I was attempting to figure out how to do some configuration of various Internet utilities over AREDN (ham radio mesh), and -- due to mesh and RF involved -- it pushes up against a lot of these same timeout errors. It was extremely annoying... i.e. you knew there was a node you could theoretically get to, but there was no MODERN protocol able to communicate because of those latency timeouts. I was looking to see if anyone still supported UUCP to get around the problem!! (but then got distracted, and never figured it out).