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Around The World In 1 Year (On A Website)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the vacation-on-sealand dept.

chrischoo writes "From the guys who brought you a crushing experience, Tsunamii.Net and Fragnetics are working on taking the Tsunamii.Net website around the world by obtaining webhosting services in 44 countries. Known as alpha 3.8 Translocation, it is commissioned by the Walker Arts Center. The website is now on it's second stop in Malaysia. Our teams need the help of the Slashdot community to plot a traceroute for each server we visit. Traceroutes are plotted onto a world map which is refreshed every time the website stops at a new server in a different geographical location. Our next stops include Thailand and Myanmar. It'll be great if we have more people willing to sponsor a webserver from your country to host one of the Tsunamii stopovers!"

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  1. Cool... by inertia187 · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. Beowulf cluster - $900
    2. Airline tickets with bulk baggage - $3000
    3. Spending two nights in customs - just your dignity
    4. Getting it all Slashdotted after all that - priceless

    There are some things money can't buy.
    For everything else, there's Mastercard.

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  2. How original! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    Tsunamii.Net and Fragnetics are working on taking the Tsunamii.Net website around the world by obtaining webhosting services in 44 countries.

    You mean... just like your standard warez site?

  3. This would be a lot cooler if... by kinnell · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They served loads of content which was politically or culturally sensitive in some way. The actual content of the website would change from country to country to reflect governmental regulations, or the sensitivities or responsibility of whoever was hosting the site at the time.

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  4. correlating IP addresses to physical locations by jonbrewer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Tsunamii's map would be a lot prettier if they'd try to do some intelligent parsing of router dns entries. For example, they treat 24.91.0.46 as located in the "United States" when in fact its name places it in Massachusetts. (bar02-p7-0.ndhmhe1.ma.attbb.net) Given the relatively small number of providers who carry the bulk of international IP traffic, it should be easy for them to decypher the naming conventions used by ATT, Sprint, Verio, Teleglobe, Global Crossing, C&W, etc. to parse out state and city names so that traffic from the US doesn't look like it's all coming from Branson Missouri, and traffic from Canada coming from bumfuck Saskatchewan. (I mean, Saskatchewan is a nice place and all, but there aren't exactly a lot of people there)