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Map of the Internet
Wellington Grey writes "Author of the popular webcomic xkcd has put up a hand made map of the internet as today's comic. He also has an interesting blog entry detailing some of the work that went into it, such a pinging servers and creating a method of fractal mapping to display related regions as contiguous sections on the grid." The drawing is pretty damn impressive; somebody get on making that thing a giant wall poster so I can paper over Taco's office door.
xkcd is a work of genius. See, for example, this classic.
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Amazing that the BBC owns to class As and the british MoD too. I suppose we did invent the damn thing though, so we deserve it.
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Wow, I wish I was clever enough to come up with stuff like this.
The author gets additional Cleverness Points for thinking to post the geonetric locations of the major geek sites (slashdot, digg, boingboing, etc.) in order to encourage those sites to repost links to the author's website.
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any truthiness?
Someone send this to Colbertnation.com and ask them for a review?
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Thats neat, however opte.org is working on realtime maps of the internet.
But where's the "Here there be dragons" part?
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What amazes me most is his ability to make you see the character's face expression although it's a faceless stick figure (eg this). That and that he seems to be an absolute geek :)
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I always laugh at how MIT half as much as all of latin america and as much as all of Africa.
I remember being in MIT and getting a real fixed IP for every single device. We actually had a coke vending machine that was hacked and online with its own IP. Considering they has so much that they are no where near running out, I'm sure there are a ton of toasters online at MIT as well.
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What language is this? "somebody got on making that thing a giant wall poster so I can paper over Taco's office door."
Someone obviously has too much time on his hands. And to think he could have been reading /.
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." -- George Orwell
There appear to be quite a few "wild" areas on the map. People keep complaining how IPv4 address space is running out, but there is actually grass growing in some of those areas!
Anyone fancy a game?
Good news is that we could wipe out the USA quite quickly.
1. Work out fractal map.
2. Place domains on map.
3. Ping servers and put them on map.
4. ?
5. Profit!!!
Or is there pure geek value in this?
The world is flat! /me waving from the 'o' of the word Various
They did a good job in labeling things like local, multicast, loopback, and VPN addresses, but they forgot to note 169 as such.
Just "gittin-r-done," day after day.
Slashdot warrants a special mention as does suicide girls.
I think we have a pretty good insight into the sick and twisted human mind with this map.
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I thought we were (supposedly) running out of IPv4 space... but the map shows quite a few unallocated blocks. What gives?
--> 127.0.0.1
-- Rastignac was here.
How boring our world has become.
;)
Old maps used to claim "Here be dragons", but today it is "Unallocated blocks".
Where has the mystery gone?
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does a company like Halliburton get a whole square? Are they planning to invade others?
I recall Netcraft produced a map of the Internet. Anyone know where it can still be found.
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This is nice for when you get lost. It can be hard finding your way back to the work you were doing, when UserFriendly pops up in related searches.
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That's a Peano Curve if anyone wants to know. : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-filling_curve
Although a map of the IP address space is probably more interesting and informative, something that was based on the distribution of domain names might be more appealing to a non-technical audience; perhaps something showing the relative size of various sites beneath each TLD, with some factor based on popularity and grouped by semantic distance and interlinking.
E.g., so you'd end up with something that had big regions for the major TLDs, and then within them you'd have semantically related regions (sites that are related based on keywords or link to each other heavily). The base unit could be sites, and their size would be proportional to their number of publicly-accessible pages times a 'popularity factor.' Maybe you could extract some of the popularity information from Google (not that they'd probably like you hitting them with a lot of scripted searches).
I think it would be neat, particularly if you ended up with something that showed such locales as the Spamblog Ghetto, Fortress Corporate America, and, of course, the Porn District.
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I was curious about the "BB&N" who had the 4 and 8 nets (how binary!!). Turns out they're described here
One of their guys wrote "[IEN-74] Sequence Number Arithmetic - William W. Plummer, BB&N Inc, September 1978", which is referenced by [RFC 1982] Serial Number Arithmetic.
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FYI he uses a Hilbert curve to map the IPv4 space on a square. This is simply brilliant, elegant and beautiful, clearly the best map of the Net I've seen in years. I love how the range of Multicast IPs renders as a square.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert_curve
Was the choice of 192 as private based on something? Or was it just picked pretty much out of a hat based on what was remaining...
Just wondering...
In reality, the security of the girlfriend system is hardware-based; it requires the presence of a specialized dongle.
"Ladies and gentlemen, my killbot features Lotus Notes and a machine gun. It is the finest available."
I have news for this guy. DEC (net 15) hasn't existed in nearly a decade, and HP and Compaq merged like four years ago. So Nets 15 & 16 should be labeled "HP".
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Isn't it kind of sad that the entire continent of Africa gets the same number of IP addresses that Prudential, an insurance company gets?
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Just float your mouse over the picture and he will tell you what the IPv6 version looks like.
;-)
Even more clever, and sooooo right
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Damn, just when I had almost made it through 2006 without adding a new webcomic link to my bookmarks. This afternoon is going to be shot to pieces checking the archives.
/. and other sources, he could have a nice map soon enough. Pretty enough to buy a copy or two
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He needs to show the reserved Class E block as such (the whole upper right corner), as well as many other reserved blocks. With corrections/suggestions coming in from
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I don't see any of the tubes
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It's labelled as Bell North on the diagram, probably because their R&D used to be called Bell Northern Research, but they're Nortel now.
Giant wall poster? Somone make a simple CGI that plots IP# arguments clearly on that map. So when I want to know "where someone is" when I have their IP#, I can see on the map. And keep a log of IP#s, and plot them all, maybe in increasing colors by timestamp or sequence.
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16 isn't DEC, its HP (along with 15). That whole "compaq buying DEC and Tandem and hp buying Compaq" thing ended DEC a long time ago.
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That's actually quite useful to me. Twice I've watched somebody attempt to brute-force their way into an FTP server that I run for myself (which I have since taken off of the public internet, since I realized I only use it on my LAN), and now I know that the attacks which came from 61/8 and 62/8 are in Asia and Europe, respectively (therefore I don't have to worry about blocking those entire IP ranges, since if my FTP server were public again, I would never be in one of those ranges trying to get in). Anybody else have a practical use for this?
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Seems most tech companies have a large chuck of that map, except the most greedy one of all :P
That small red point in the upper-left corner of the map... is there a label "China" attached to it?
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Not exactly a direct reply to parent, but is there a simple way to get mappings from domains to IP address space--in bulk? There is the RIPE DB for the IP space and Whois lets you do single queries on domains, but is there some sort of publicly available list of valid domains with or without IP addresses belonging to them?
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Why are the three IPs with private ranges all marked differently? All of 10. and all of 172. are private...
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AUTHOR'S NOTE:
I created this small partial map of the Internet from the 2005-01-15 data found here using a slightly different rendering technique than was used to generate the maps there. Each line is drawn between two nodes, representing two IP addresses. The length of the lines are indicative of the delay between those two nodes. This graph represents less than 30% of the Class C networks reachable by the data collection program in early 2005. Lines are color-coded according to their corresponding RFC 1918 allocation as follows:
Big BIG HUGE (probably unusable in articles) version can be found at Image:Internet map 4096.png.
is there a simple way to get mappings from domains to IP address space--in bulk?
Erm, I don't know of a publicly-available list, but it seems like it would be pretty easy to generate one by just using DNS queries.
What you're asking for is pretty much the function of the DNS system, after all. You could easily write a script that took a list of domain names and resolved them to IP addresses -- you'd just want to make sure that your upstream DNS provider didn't block you for being abusive or for looking too much like a DDoS.
"Ladies and gentlemen, my killbot features Lotus Notes and a machine gun. It is the finest available."
IP addresses were never sold, and they are not property. In the days before IANA, there wasn't even a few associated with getting an address assignment. Nowadays, you need to become a member of a Regional Internet Registry (RIR) to directly receive addresses through them, but more commonly, you get your IPs from your ISP.
Considering that there are a number of sleaseballs that want to get IP address assignments to be recognized as property, and be able to trade in them, the distinction is important. Considering the money making schemes we now see around domain names, I don't want to think about what those people would do to connectivity if they'd managed to get that established in court.
> Since they didn't they should be happy with what they have been given for free.
Please stop spreading this ignorance, which I hear over and over. The "third world" wasn't "given" anything - every country has paid fully for its own bit of the network, its own infrastructure, and pays fully for its own international connectivity. They even pay for the IPs. (In fact, third-world countries pay hugely disproportionately more for international traffic routed through the US, but that's another issue.) The R&D costs for the underlying technologies have been miniscule compared to the actual infrastructure development and maintenance costs. China and India and every other country weren't "given" the Internet, they worked hard to make enough money via trade/enterprise to pay for and build it themselves.
In reality, the security of the girlfriend system is hardware-based; it requires the presence of a specialized dongle.
/proc irregularities. Hell, he wouldn't even know what hit him. He could turn off the light in the artificial world, but in the real world the light is always-on -- killing his electricity bill! Someone warn the poor sod of any plants moving about the corners of his domicile; similar to my circumstances, the alleged "ferns" could be the agents of the "girlfriend" merging into the new reality in the image of their VM. I find the cohorts will take the image of a non-living thing. I could almost swear the rocks were talking to me, like they had somthing to say. Try to over-water the plants, hurry!
Woah there, comrade. Let's back-up to red-square 1. He referred to his girl "friend" as the one ascribed to the almighty sudo for "root." So given the girlfriend is root, what makes you think she hasn't already sandboxed his environment within moments of holding that title of nobility? He thinks he's sitting in a chair and watching television, when in fact it's just an artificial reality to conceal the re-organization of his ${HOME}? Who says the girlfriend(root) just didn't tunnel the request to a process in a VM? Given how there is such a cold response after his instance of "sudo", it's evidence of an exception in an inferior process. Check those symbolic links and
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Great work... but why did he single out SuicideGirls??
Oh...
Did you ever notice that *nix doesn't even cover Linux?
Shouldn't that be "Here Be Dragons"?
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Tee hee hee...
Ok, that's pretty lame. As is the rest of his comic.
Boy in a funny way you can see who planned for the future with innovation and who didn't.
he got slashdot and digg on there too!
You should rename "Various Registrars" to The Swamp, with accompanying artwork. Also, the big green pasture up at the top right is Class E space. That might be a good place for the "Here be dragons" section, as attempting to allocate that space for unicast use would run into lots of problems, some of which I'm sure we haven't thought of yet.