Re:Map of I-don't-know-what (Score 2, Interesting)

Fragmentation is a problem, however, I am not seeing it as fargmented as I thought it could be. I would say about 99% of the ip's in /24's route to the same last two hops. Some isp's break it up a lot, but that's on their small part of their networks. When that happens it is relfected in the image with "less resolution" of the edges. The scanning is done using random /16's that are checked out from the valid address space, they are scanned by 3 different nodes on different backones in different parts of the world. Soon they will be done from maybe about 6 different backbones. Also, using the old term, "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" (this is not a pipe), the "map" is a working image of data, nothing more. It's art, math, whatever you want to call it, but I never say "this is the internet." The best image I have now is stated as: "This graph is by far our most complex. It is using over 5 million edges and has an estimated 50 million hop count." If you want to see the data for yourself and play with it, you should download Alex's LGL view .jar file and load the data. You can zoom in on every single route on any point and then turn on the ID (or IP of that point) run some traceroutes of your own and you will see that your traceroutes match the data in the images. Anyway, back to my point: No image can be "the Internet", it is just an image. :) Depending on what philosophy you subscibe to. This was a small project that grew, we are prducing neat maps and we are solving issues with them as the days go on. This is about 4 weeks of work and it's neat, but not anywhere near done. I'll be looking forward to help for anyone. :)