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From the article: "Most mesh networks are connected to the public Internet, but if that connection goes down, the local mesh continues to work. In Red Hook tha
by jasonlfunk 12y ago
From the article:
"Most mesh networks are connected to the public Internet, but if that connection goes down, the local mesh continues to work. In Red Hook that means that you could make voice calls (over IP) from your housing project to the local hardware store to see if its open. Or you could email a friend who lives in the neighborhood."
I don't know VOIP very well so this may certainly be possible, but I very much doubt that without an external internet connection you'd be able to email anyone.
- fleitz 12y agoEmail works on a single server, it's pretty easy to get an email system working that doesn't involve the Internet.
- technofiend 12y agoIt actually works across multiple servers as well and e-mail exchange predates the "always on" internet everyone's used to. It is feasible RHI is running their own DNS and if they really want to go old school could always support UUCP.
- technofiend 12y agoThat could easily be hyperbole on the author's part but you don't need internet if Red Hook residents are running their own mail servers. Since they could also possibly be running their own VOIP servers it isn't terribly far fetched. Multiple non-internet based servers can easily talk to each other as long as they have a map of how to do so. RHI could be running their own DNS in which case each set of sendmail / qmail / whatever servers could still see each other. And if they really want to go old-school they could use UUCP or NNTP to shift around e-mail and news respectively between sometimes connected nodes. Many of the "intermittent internet connection" problems have been solved for a while.