Using DNS to Locate the International Space Station (ISS)
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8organicbits
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Summary
The article discusses using DNS to locate the International Space Station (ISS) and emphasizes the physical locations of servers in the cloud. It touches on the practicality of knowing the exact location of machines.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledI love DNS esoterica. Weird little things that you can shove in the global directory to be distributed around the world instantly(ish).
As much as we think of 'the cloud' as being some intangible morass of ethereal Turing-machines floating in probability space, the more prosaic reality is that they're just boxen in data centres.
Got a tricky machine which is playing silly-buggers? Wouldn't it be nice to know exactly where it is? That way you can visit and give it some percussive maintenance.
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