Re: Internet services in Antarctica

[Karl Auer <kauer () biplane com au>]

On Mon, 2020-01-20 at 02:13 -0800, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:
> 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.

Back in the early nineties Andrew Tridgell (Samba, rsync etc) put at
least three Linux-based satellite receivers into Antarctica at the
behest of the Oz government. Dunno if they were or are NTP servers. 

Regards, K.

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