myrmepropagandistIf an astronaut sent you an email or loaded your website, could you tell from the IP or anything?
AI6YR Ben@futurebird from space? I suspect yes, but probably goes through nasa.gov IP address range.
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
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