Sunshine (she/her) to [email protected]English • 1 month agoIs the moon too far for your data? IBM's Red Hat is teaming up with Axiom Space to send a data center into spacewww.techradar.comexternal-linkmessage-square29fedilinkarrow-up177
arrow-up177external-linkIs the moon too far for your data? IBM's Red Hat is teaming up with Axiom Space to send a data center into spacewww.techradar.comSunshine (she/her) to [email protected]English • 1 month agomessage-square29fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•1 month agoThe problem isn’t the DNS requests. It’s the data synchronization that would have to occur if you were accessing a service hosted on Earth.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•1 month agoIt’s called caching and it’s been mostly solved for decades (except invalidation).
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 month agoThere are many places on Earth where DNS servers have high latency, low bandwidth, and intermittent connectivity, yet still function fine. It’s already a solved problem.
The problem isn’t the DNS requests. It’s the data synchronization that would have to occur if you were accessing a service hosted on Earth.
It’s called caching and it’s been mostly solved for decades (except invalidation).
There are many places on Earth where DNS servers have high latency, low bandwidth, and intermittent connectivity, yet still function fine. It’s already a solved problem.