Connectivity Providers Database

From: Steinar Haug <Steinar.Haug@runit.sintef.no> To: ietf@CNRI.Reston.VA.US CC: Ivan Andersen <Ivan@Qdata.gl> Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 23:12:24 +0200 (MET DST) Ivan Andersen <Ivan@Qdata.gl> writes: > We are proud to announce what is probably the Worlds northernmost Internet > site. Probably not. > Q-Data - IT service provider in Greenland - connects an internal net, that > streches from Qaanaaq (Thule) in the north to Nanortalik in the south, to > the Internet through links provided by Tele Greenland and UNI-C - a Danish > Internet provider. According to my edition of "The TIMES Atlas of the world": Thule, Greenland: 77.30N 69.29W Longyearbyen, Svalbard: 78.12N 15.40E Longyearbyen has been connected to the Internet for more than a year, via a satellite link. % traceroute durnik.unis.no traceroute to durnik.unis.no (158.39.46.41) 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 sintef-gw.sintef.no (129.241.100.1) 91 ms 4 ms 6 ms 2 trd-gw.uninett.no (128.39.9.3) 93 ms 69 ms 5 ms 3 tromso-gw.uninett.no (128.39.19.2) 42 ms 29 ms 89 ms 4 unis-gw.unis.no (158.39.48.2) 664 ms 634 ms 615 ms 5 durnik.Unis.No (158.39.46.41) 660 ms 691 ms 647 ms % whois -h whois.ripe.net unis.no domain: unis.no descr: Universitetsstudiene pa Svalbard, Longyearbyen admin-c: Fred Sigernes tech-c: Jens Braten zone-c: Jens Braten nserver: durnik.unis.no nserver: benoni.uit.no nserver: aun.uninett.no changed: Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no 940302 source: RIPE I wouldn't be surprised if there are other Internet sites even further North. Steinar Haug (one of) Uninett hostmaster