Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days 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-up184arrow-down13
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minus-squareshortwavesurfer@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·3 days 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-squareUberKitten@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days 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.
minus-squarecatloaf@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agoIt’s called caching and it’s been mostly solved for decades (except invalidation).
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.
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.
It’s called caching and it’s been mostly solved for decades (except invalidation).