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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•2 days agoNothing would stop you from running a DNS server on Mars and handling requests locally.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•2 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•17 hours 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•2 days agoIt’s called caching and it’s been mostly solved for decades (except invalidation).
Nothing would stop you from running a DNS server on Mars and handling requests locally.
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).