Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mcnc!uvaarpa!murdoch!murdoch.acc.virginia.edu!dwells From: dwells@fits.cx.nrao.edu (Don Wells) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains Subject: Ping a host in Africa? Message-ID: Date: 23 Nov 90 05:49:26 GMT Sender: news@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Distribution: comp Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, VA Lines: 35 For several years I have been watching more and more countries connect to the Internet. I have enjoyed pinging a host in each one as soon as it became possible. The sensation is like a stamp collector receiving an example of an elegant stamp from some distant exotic place not previously represented in his collection. Tonight I was reviewing the list of countries I have pinged [1], and realized that I have "worked" all continents except Africa and Antarctica. I presume that eventually the US NSF's South Pole research station will get an IP link, but I won't hold my breath while waiting. Africa is a more likely case, which leads to my question: Is there a host on the continent of Africa that can be pinged? [2] =-=-= [1] 22 countries: AT AU CA CH CL[3] DE DK FI FR GR IL IS IT JP KR MX NL NO NZ SE UK US(of course); 5 continents: Asia, Australia, Europe, North_America, South_America, plus some islands in the Atlantic, Caribbean and Pacific. IL, GR and AT were the most recent additions to the list of countries. I know of the existence of IP links to BE and Argentina but don't yet know any IP numbers in those countries. [2] NOTE: Israel is in Asia, not Africa. [3] The Chilean host is at a US astronomical observatory in central Chile; although its name is in the EDU domain, not the CL domain, it is definitely located in South_America. -- Donald C. Wells, Assoc. Scientist | dwells@nrao.edu Nat. Radio Astronomy Observatory | 6654::DWELLS Edgemont Road | +1-804-296-0277 38:02.2N Charlottesville, VA 22903-2475 USA | +1-804-296-0278(Fax) 78:31.1W