Internet services in Antarctica

Mon Jan 20 14:33:55 UTC 2020

One of my buddies was a network engineer at Palmer Station for a winter.
Let me reach out to him.

- Mike Bolitho

On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 3:15 AM Ask Bjørn Hansen <ask at develooper.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a hobby project running DNS service to people looking for NTP
> public servers. I noticed that the DNS servers apparently get ~5 thousand
> queries per day from IPs that the GeoIP database we use claim are in in
> Antarctica. It’s less than 0.0001% of the overall DNS queries, but it made
> me curious what it’d take to make the service work better there.
>
> I imagine the internet service is fragmented between the various stations
> with each being best connected to a particular country? Does anyone have
> contacts there that I could talk to?  I imagine (some of?) the stations
> would have a local NTP service as part of their compute facilities.
>
>
> Ask
>
>
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