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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.
To everyone who's asked for a large poster of this -- I'm going to be offering large prints of it in the xkcd store before too long, but for a handful of reasons I can't easily do it immediately (I'm in the middle of the holiday rush with shipping out t-shirts). It's cool to hear so many people are interested, though! Thank you!
I would actually like to see someone else create a computer-generated poster with a higher level of detail (there will be algorithms for the mapping on the blag soon). I think you can do some interesting things with this fractal; it'd be neat to see all the websites you visit marked with red dots, more detailed survey info for the registry patchwork, server density/space usage (the 63-74 blocks are more densely populated than anything else), etc.
xkcd.com - a webcomic of mathematics, love, and language.
I'm pretty sure you can claim hypertext or http or something like that, but not the network itself. The network was a DARPA project.
I haven't had my coffee...
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
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
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".
All your IP space belong to us!!! Bwahahahaaaaaa!!!
- Necron69
Just float your mouse over the picture and he will tell you what the IPv6 version looks like.
;-)
Even more clever, and sooooo right
To Terminate, or not to Terminate, that's the question - SCSIROB
in binary 192 is 11000000
so with bit masking it makes sense.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_mask
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192 = 128*1.5 or 128 + 64
i.e. while not strictly a power of two, it is closely related to one.
More specifically, the bit pattern for 192 is a nice clean 11000000
retrorocket.o not found, launch anyway?
The private, nonroutable IP ranges, according to RFC 1918 are:
10.0.0.0 to 10.255.255.255 (10/8 prefix)
172.16.0.0 to 172.31.255.255 (172.16/12 prefix)
192.168.0.0 to 192.168.255.255 (192.168/16 prefix)
"Ancillary does not mean you get to rule the world." --U.S. Circuit Judge Harry Edwards, speaking to the FCC's lawyer
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.
http is the killer app of DARPA's platform.
The British deserve a pretty damn sizable chunk of it, with respect to population and usage.
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.
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Have you looked at how many IP's you get in IPv6? Seriously, I once saw the number and it took me several minutes of googling to figure out how to say the number outloud because I had never encountered a number that large. Given that IP will only be useful for a single planet network, we should be good for a very long time.
Quickly googling, I saw these explanations of how many addresses we get with IPv6:
(667 sextillion) addresses per square meter
3.4 times 10**38 addresses, or 5 times 10**28 (50 octillion) for each of the roughly 6.5 billion people alive today
I'm perfectly comfortable being quoted saying that 50 octillion addresses ought to be enough for anybody. (Considering the whole of the current IPv4 Internet is only 4 billion some odd addresses...)