Best way to check if there is internet?
Chris Angelico
rosuav at gmail.com
Mon Feb 7 20:23:52 EST 2022
On Tue, 8 Feb 2022 at 12:20, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
>
> On 2/7/22 4:27 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:
> > On 8/02/22 8:51 am, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
> >> Some day, we'll have people on Mars. They won't have TCP connections -
> >> at least, not unless servers start supporting connection timeouts
> >> measured in minutes or hours - but it wouldn't surprise me if some
> >> sort of caching proxy system is deployed.
> >
> > Or the internet acquires a new protocol that's designed
> > for very-long-latency connections.
>
> RocketNet -- a massive store-and-forward protocol. ;-)
>
Definitely possible. Though wouldn't a rocket scientist call it
"store-and-prograde"? :)
ChrisA
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