Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sdcsla.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!mhuxj!houxm!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcsla!west From: west@sdcsla.UUCP (Larry West) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: How robust will satellite distribution be? Message-ID: <753@sdcsla.UUCP> Date: Fri, 21-Dec-84 04:03:24 EST Article-I.D.: sdcsla.753 Posted: Fri Dec 21 04:03:24 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 22-Dec-84 07:35:15 EST Reply-To: west@sdcsla.UUCP (Larry West) Organization: UC San Diego: Institute for Cognitive Science Lines: 24 Keywords: reliability interruptibility Summary: [Yes, Lauren, please proceed as you see fit.] I'm curious as to how the satellite-broadcast scheme will take power-failures and the like into account. For example, is reception dependent upon the host computer being up? [I.e., I assume the thing doesn't have its own disk.] Although currently a site can stand missing many many hours of netnews reception, I wonder whether this will be true in the satellite system. The problem that I see is that the satellite system will become the backbone of netnews distribution -- so, if a satellite (reception) site is down for a while, whence will it get the news it missed? I guess arrangements with the other satellite reception sites can be made (at the expense of long-distance phone calls), but... is there A Better Way? -- --| Larry West, UC San Diego, Institute for Cognitive Science --| UUCP: {decvax!ucbvax,ihnp4}!sdcsvax!sdcsla!west --| ARPA: west@NPRDC { NOT:}