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From: hans@ditmela.oz (Hans Eriksson)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: World record furthest telnet: Australia -> Sweden
Message-ID: <5895@ditmela.oz>
Date: 30 Jun 89 00:38:00 GMT
References: <5841@ditmela.oz> <2830002@hpausla.HP.COM>
Reply-To: hans@ditmela.oz.au (Hans Eriksson)
Organization: CSIRO/DIT, Melbourne, Australia (on leave from SICS, Sweden)
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In article <2830002@hpausla.HP.COM> brianw@hpausla.HP.COM (Brian Wallis) writes:
>
> Hate to say it, but we do it just about every day. HP Australian
> Software Operation (ASO) has an internet connection to HP's closed
> subnet (and has had for about a year) which is regularly used for
> telnet, ftp, etc to HP sites in the US, UK and Germany to name the
> more common ones.

Yeah, I hate you saying that too ;-)

Anyway, you are commersial, I'm just a poor lonely researcher in the
outskirts of the world (sorry, my dear Australians! I love the country
anyway).

But I'd guess I have to modify my claim:

World record for longest telnet via the Internet:
Melbourne -> Stockholm via the western hemisphere (~ 22,000km).

/hans
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