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minus-squareUberKittenlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 hours agoNothing would stop you from running a DNS server on Mars and handling requests locally.
minus-squareshortwavesurfer@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 hours agoThe problem isn’t the DNS requests. It’s the data synchronization that would have to occur if you were accessing a service hosted on Earth.
minus-squarecatloaf@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 hours agoIt’s called caching and it’s been mostly solved for decades (except invalidation).
Nothing would stop you from running a DNS server on Mars and handling requests locally.
The problem isn’t the DNS requests. It’s the data synchronization that would have to occur if you were accessing a service hosted on Earth.
It’s called caching and it’s been mostly solved for decades (except invalidation).