more on the experiment on ****yet***** Another new Google twist..

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Rob Knauerhase <knauer () jf intel com>
Date: January 9, 2006 8:52:32 PM EST
To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: Re: [IP] more on ****yet***** Another new Google twist..

On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 08:42:27PM -0500, David Farber wrote:
> Begin forwarded message:
> From: Rodney Joffe <rjoffe () centergate com>
>
> But wait, there's more. I have also been noticing seemingly random
> but frequent attempts to trigger firefox connections to various
> planetlabs machines (http://www.planet-lab.org/) as a result of
> Google searches. I think it is admirable that Google is supporting
> the research world but were it not for my "littleSnitch" application,
> I would have had no idea.

Without better logs, it's impossible to determine, but I expect that
what you're seeing has to do with Coral, a research project from folks
at NYU.  Coral is a content-distribution network that runs on top of
the PlanetLab distributed testbed.

Most likely, you've hit a site (or sites) who have "coral-ized" their
content, which means your machine is obtaining a cached copy from a
PlanetLab node.  This has nothing to do with Google (although they
are tangentially involved in PlanetLab as a research testbed), except
perhaps for the pre-fetching activities already discussed on this list.

More information is available from http://www.coralcdn.org/ .

  [Disclaimers: I was on the team at Intel that helped develop  
PlanetLab,
   which is now mainted by the PlanetLab Consortium at Princeton Univ.
   I have no affiliation with Coral other than having met many of the
   folks involved.  And of course, I don't speak for Intel in any
   official capacity.]

Rob
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 email address. I'd used email since about 1975, and it seems to to  
me that
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