[Starlink] fiber IXPs in space

David Lang david at lang.hm
Sun Apr 16 17:58:47 EDT 2023


On Sun, 16 Apr 2023, David Fernández via Starlink wrote:

> The idea would be that the satellite inspects IP packets and when it
> detects a DNS query, instead of forwarding the packet to ground
> station, it just answers back to the sender of the query.

This would be a bad way to implement it. You don't want to override queries to 
other DNS servers, but it would be very easy to create an anycast address that 
is served by the satellites.

David Lang


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