Re: [SPAM] Your daily internet traffic report

[Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu () deaddrop org>]

Hugo van der Kooij wrote:

> On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, RandallM wrote:
>
>  
>
> > Router                  location                index
> > router1.iust.ac.ir      Iran (Tehran)   29
> >
> > Which one of you are attacking Iran
> > http://www.internettrafficreport.com/asia.htm
> >    
>
> I am a bit puzzled. Why o they think that some random routers and ICMP
> echo requests mak a good representation?
>  

The routers are not random. They are routers from folk who've 
*volunteered* to be a part of this. Jeeze, Loise, doesn't anyone do 
homework anymore? While I suspect that Iran may be getting a DOS here 
and there, I'd point out that there are other trouble spots across Asia, 
and I'm sure that's due to the incredible amount of compromised machines 
out that way, as much as anything.

> But the internet topology is much, much more complex. Doing ICMP echo
> requests to 1 router and telling everyone what a country statistic is so
> far besides the truth I will not call it a lie. (I hate to insult lies by
> implying them in this.)
>  

Uh-huh. Complexity is not what's being offered here. It's still a useful 
statistic, as long as you think of it as part of a picture (no one ever 
declared it as the whole). There are all sorts of places to pick this 
information up (including CAIDA, and CYMRU).

> I have been on some provider location through out the Netherlands yet
> there is only one (and a rather obscure one at that) router which should
> represent the Netherlands.
>  

Then suggest to some of those locations that they ought to be a part of 
this, so as to represent a more accurate picture.

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