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Mapping the Whole IPv4 Internet with Hilbert Curves

posted by chromas on Monday April 23 2018, @03:14PM   Printer-friendly
from the we-dont-say-botnet-anymore-its-just-iot dept.

canopic jug writes:

Ben Cox writes in his blog about visualizing IPv4 address space use by mapping the whole IPv4 Internet with Hilbert curves. While the IPv4 address space is quite large it is still small enough to be able to send a packet to each and every IP address. He goes a little into the background of the maths involved and then makes a comparison to the IPv4 address space back in 2012 using data from the Carna botnet.

[See, also: xkcd's MAP of the INTERNET, the IPv4 space, 2006. --martyb]

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by edIII on Monday April 23 2018, @07:01PM (2 children)

    by edIII (791) on Monday April 23 2018, @07:01PM (#670833)

    Interesting, but is it accurate? A lot of space in there probably doesn't respond to pings by design, and there is a huge topology above this map representing NAT'd servers that only connect through a single point on this map.

    I do have to give him points for humor though. The IPv6 map is pretty funny.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by ledow on Monday April 23 2018, @09:06PM

    by ledow (5567) on Monday April 23 2018, @09:06PM (#670886) Homepage

    Yeah, I imagine the UK MOD block is a bit busier than indicated, even if they're not really using it.

    But then, I'm not sure you want to be running a full nmap of all 65536 ports against the MOD or the US Army blocks, especially not if you have to sit around someplace and wait for it to complete.

  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday April 23 2018, @10:58PM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Monday April 23 2018, @10:58PM (#670926) Homepage Journal

    $ sudo ping -f -c 1000 nsa.gov

    It answered at first but after a hundred or so responses I got "host unreachable" messages.

    Now they don't answer pings at all.

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