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 -- Edward Cherlin, Simputer Evangelist Encore Technologies (S) Pte. Ltd. Computers for all of us http://www.simputerland.com, http://cherlin.blogspot.com -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
