HD> Try Wageningen, or read the website. HD> It is a Dutch ship build on an inland barge, about 76 m long, 11,45 m. HD> wide, about 2,50 m. depth, and about 8 m. high. It is the second one, HD> they first had a smaller one.
You must have seen the old one. The second one is almost twice as big. 136 m long and 30 m wide. According to the website.
I suppose this is an answer to the question why anyone would want to have a zoo on a ship. Though one could question if a collection of domestic animals such as sheep and goats qualify as a zoo. The giraffe and elephant do not count, they are statues.
MvdV>> That answers the question of what they can not. Not the question MvdV>> of why they want it in the first place.
HD> Of course for the same reason people ashore would want to run their HD> own servers.
They are not the same people. People living a nomadic life on a ship are not the same people as people with a fixed residence. Different people, different needs. Nomads have learned to do without things that require a fixed base of operation. The nomadic lifestyle is build around things that what (s)he can carry around.
MvdV>> Yeah, and pigs will fly and I will be an astronaut after all...
HD> That chances are far more away, then the ones I mentioned.
The point is that you can't speak for those that live a nomadic life on a ship without a permanent fixed base of operation. You are not in that position.
MvdV>> But if running a Fidonet node in a data centre is what you can MvdV>> have and running it on your ship while on the move is what you MvdV>> can not have, what will you choose?
HD> Of course it is possible to get a mobile node with a fixed IPv4 adres, HD> only the price for it may be very expensive,
If the price is beyond affordability, then it is impossible in practice.
HD>>> I know Kees and you do have a fixed part at the IPv6 number that HD>>> ends with the FidoNet Node number, right?
MvdV>> We have, and we are not the only ones. Look in the list of IPv6 MvdV>> nodes for "f" in the "remarks" colum.
HD> Who says that is not possible with mobile devices?
As it is, you can not have an IPv6 address from a Dutch mobile provider.
MvdV>> But it has nothing to do with mobile.
HD> We already know IPv4 is hardly possible at mobile devices, HD> but IPv6 ?
AFAIK, not yet.
MvdV>> For a server you need a stable routable public IP address. I MvdV>> have not yet found a way to get one on a mobile connection. So MvdV>> forget it.
HD> A tunnel, IPv6 adress, or mobile Phone Number could be a solution for HD> that. The only question is, does somebody already tested it HD> successfully?
Not that I know of. I am sure that if someone will manage to run a long time stable fully fledged Fidonet node on a mobile connection, we will hear about it.
