Building an internet atlas

• Autores: Douglas Heaven
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2912, 2013, pág. 20
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Heaven talks about map of the Internet's cables and servers, which could help protect against outages. Internet cartographers have tried for years to chart its extent in the physical world, in order to manage traffic and assess weaknesses. Previous attempts to map the Internet have been from within, using sniffer software to report the IP addresses of devices visited along a particular route, which, in theory, can then be translated into geographical locations. But this approach doesn't work, says Paul Barford at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After 15 years nobody can show a map of the Internet. Such software is often inadvertently blocked by Internet service providers