Hosting again

[Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker]

"Iain Tatch" <iain.tatch+londonpm at gmail.com> writes:

> On 29/10/2007, Lyle - CosmicPerl.com <perl at cosmicperl.com> wrote:
>
>> My money is on the Mars colony server cluster, less money for cooling at
>> any rate...
>
> Yeah, but think of the latency.

It's in fact too much for TCP:

>From <http://lxr.linux.no/source/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c#L360>:

    *   Note that 120 sec is defined in the protocol as the maximum
    *   possible RTT. I guess we'll have to use something other than TCP
    *   to talk to the University of Mars.

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