Mapping the Internet
On a bet, Barrett Lyon set out to map the entire Internet in a day, calling it
The Opte Project. He's almost done.
BACKGROUND:
Over a lunch we were discussing William Cheswick and Hal Burch's Internet Mapping Project. I was not very impressed with the results of their project, they produce beautiful maps but they don't seem to be very useful nor do they release their code freely. Their mapping also takes nearly six months to generate a single map. My comment was that, "I can write a program that can map the entire net in a single day." The comment was met with some hostility.
* Ray, 11/15/2003 11:17:50 AM
