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Map the Internet... In One Day?
rjbrown99 writes "There have been numerous stories over the past few years on Bill Cheswick's Internet Mapping Project. The Lumeta folks even created a company out of it. Well, now there is a competitor. A single guy with a single computer is working to accomplish the same feat - within ONE DAY and using open-source tools to do it. The new project is called Opte and can be found at www.opte.org." He's made some progress and is looking for volunteers.
Several maps of the internet right here
Life is the leading cause of death in America.
I am in serious need of more bandwidth and hardware power. If anyone has a Co-Located system on a nice network to donate to this project for a few months, I would be very happy!
Slashdotting was never easier!
Go past the burnt-out Cray and then right at the Commodore64 Contiki server - you'll see my drive lights.
...his web server is already unavailable within minutes of it being posted on Slashdot...
Mapping...Slashdot.org......
IP Address: 127.0.0.1
Computer: The one from Microsoft with the Start button in the bottom left hand corner.
Location: my bedroom.
The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.
SCO IPs are in the Mordor address space.
#/usr/sbin/traceroute *.*.*.*
Well, there's one less server to map...
Tired of being "punished" by the Slashdot $rtbl since 2002. I'm now over at http://soylentnews.org/ .
Top that!
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but if we need the internet to tell us when a major disaster or war happens in a certain part of the world something is wrong.
the Internet came to him! And he was no more.
Now map the people mapping the internet in one day.
If this article confuses you, don't worry. It was posted yesterday in a much clearer fashion.
A single guy with a single computer...
He's mapping the Internet. Why am I not surprised he's single?
Please explain how one pings a web page. Is this a feature of AOL?
Web pages are NOT internet hosts.
Web servers are relatively few compared with other types of hosts on the internet.
The World Wide Web is NOT the internet.
The World Wide Web is NOT the internet.
The World Wide Web is NOT the internet.
The World Wide Web is NOT the internet.
Following your metaphor - the internet's genitalia must be really huge then. Or at least the portion of the brain responsible for sex.
To celebrate the occasion of my 1000th post, I will post no more forever on Slashdot. Goodbye.
You want to map the internet?
1 Setup a site saying you want to map the internet.
2 Get posted on slashdot.
3 Parse the referer logs.
4 ???
5 Profit!
You kids are so spoiled today. Back in the 60s we used to be able to map the entire internet using nothing more than a piece of string and 2 pushpins.
Huh? 2 nodes? Why the hell should that matter?
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
how can this guy map all the porn in on day?
I am working on this for years now.
You don't need a map of the Internet... just watch for your spam to drop by about 90% and you know there's something wrong with the Chinese internet.
Don't blame me; I'm never given mod points.
No. They are limited by the speed of IP, which is not only slower, but its speed is random within a fairly large range. So to be safe, we have to asume the total cabling on the internet is (think, think, think) less than 3 meters.