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Internet Black Holes

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the you-can't-get-there-from-here dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Hubble is a system that operates continuously to find persistent Internet black holes as they occur. Hubble has operated continuously since September 17, 2007. During that time, it identified 881,090 black holes and reachability problems. In the most recent quarter-hourly round, completed at 04:40 PDT, 04/09/2008, Hubble issued 46,846 traceroutes to 1,815 prefixes it identified as likely to be experiencing problems (of 78,772 total prefixes monitored by the system). Of these, it found 195 prefixes to be unreachable from all its vantage points and 139 to be reachable from some vantage points and not others." No relationship to that other Hubble which also tries to find black holes ;)

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  1. Re:GNAA Gay Nigger Monkey Scientist News by smittyoneeach · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The world would be improved if those who think sophomoric mis-use of free speech is somehow funny fell into one.

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    Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
  2. Purpose? by RandoX · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Can someone please explain to me what the purpose of this is? Seriously?

  3. Black holes may be intentional by RandoX · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Since it's coming from University of Washington, presumably from a .edu domain, could these black holes simply be running PeerGuardian?

  4. Re:GNAA Gay Nigger Monkey Scientist News by smittyoneeach · · Score: 2, Insightful

    My horse ain't injecting horse, nor does my heroine shoot heroin.
    There is nothing ironic in racist, homophobic rants: st00p3d is st00p3d.
    The stuff doesn't even bump the needle on the dada meter.

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    Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
  5. How is this different from ITR? by writermike · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I saw the site last night when it popped up on MetaFilter. For those of you who know, what are the differences between something like this and what shows up on the Internet Traffic Report?

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  6. Name collision is cute, but overall a BAD idea by CKW · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...because ANYONE who goes looking for this will have to sift through an impossibly high mound of totally unrelated "hubble space telescope black hole" stuff. Or WORSE, the former will start appearing in the middle of searches for the latter.

    The same also goes for people who name their products or companies using simple short common terms strung together - whereupon a search for that returns a BAJILLION other unrelated hits.

    This is sorta like "naming servers". "Short unique names that are easy to type." That's the primary criteria where I'm at. "Cute" and "in" and "cool" are completely secondary.

    # ssh -l root supercalifragilisticexpialadocious
    .

  7. Re:UNIX is for porn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Are you sure you want to be piping stuff around quite so much?