On Monday 07 July 2003 09:13 am, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 12:14:47PM -0500, John Sorres wrote:
> > Finally, I'm not sure why you wouldn't want to connect such
> > a network to the Internet, at least in a limited fashion.
> > Surely such workers would want to communicate with outside
> > authorities, agencies, etc; it might be useful for them to
> > have google to search, in case they need quick information
> > about a specific topic; etc.
>
> I strongly suspect that the implication of that clause was
> "We're assuming that the Internet is unreachable in the
> proposed context."  Obviously, you want it if you can get
> it... but one needs to be careful about things like trapping
> RFC1918 reverse DNS at the edge, to avoid problems caused by
> intermittent and/or non-existent access to the Internet.

Satellite internet solves a lot of those problems. Broadband 
up/downlink equipment is available off the shelf from a number 
of easily-Googled sources.

> Cheers,
> -- jra

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