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minus-squareUberKitten@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoNothing would stop you from running a DNS server on Mars and handling requests locally.
minus-squareshortwavesurfer@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month 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-up0·1 month 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).