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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: <5896@ditmela.oz>
Date: 30 Jun 89 00:43:55 GMT
References: <5841@ditmela.oz> <[A.ISI.EDU]29-Jun-89.00:29:13.CERF>
Reply-To: hans@ditmela.oz.au (Hans Eriksson)
Organization: CSIRO/DIT, Melbourne, Australia (on leave from SICS, Sweden)
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In article <[A.ISI.EDU]29-Jun-89.00:29:13.CERF> CERF@A.ISI.EDU writes:
> Now,
>
> can you telnet back again to your own host - and use
> some source routing to force the connection truly around
> the world...

There is no IP-links going via the eastern hemishpere (yet). Of course
there maybe someone running IP over X.25 (I have thought about doing
that myself).

What I have done is calling SICS (Stockholm) via X.25 and then telnet
to Australia. I guess that Australia PTT takes the shortest path to
Sweden which should be via the easter hemisphere, and then I completed
the circumnavigation via the IP-links Scandinavia->US->Australia.

/hans

p.s. I wonder when one can go around the world in just 80 milliseconds...
-- 
Hans Eriksson (hans@ditmela.oz.au)
CSIRO/DIT, 55 Barry Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia (we are GMT+10)
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On a years leave from Swedish Institute of Computer Science (hans@sics.se)