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Re: Map of the Internet

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Post by _han »

amarant wrote: post #37

The "you are here" marker doesn't appear very accurate. It placed me in North America, but I'm in Sweden... Edit: zooming in it actually places me in Sweden and even gets my ISP right. But still categorises me as North America. Did geography change while I slept?

I assumed the initial marker is placed where the website is hosted from, not where the client is connecting from.

(For me it was also in North America whereas I am in the Netherlands.)

Re: Map of the Internet

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Post by bouncingbunny »

amarant wrote: post #37

The "you are here" marker doesn't appear very accurate. It placed me in North America, but I'm in Sweden... Edit: zooming in it actually places me in Sweden and even gets my ISP right. But still categorises me as North America. Did geography change while I slept?

Probably due to IP transfers between regions.

The original /8 was assigned to ARIN (which handles IP addresses in the US), and then later a more specific subnet (like a /16) was transferred to RIPE (which handles the European region).

So while the big block is correctly shown as North America, the smaller ones shouldn't be.

Re: Map of the Internet

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Post by kibwen »

charcircuit wrote: post #30
system2 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IPv6 wouldn't fit in a screen. Best way to do it would be trace routing and making some connections. If you type "how many ipv6 addresses" to google you get this weird number: "340 trillion trillion trillion IP addresses"

>IPv6 wouldn't fit in a screen. Yes, it would. It isn't any different from the linked article. You just zoom out until it fits.

In an IPv6 map, the entire IPv4 space would take up exponentially less area than a single IP address takes up in the IPv4 map. I don't know how IPv6 addresses get allocated, but at that zoom level it would be quite empty.

Re: Map of the Internet

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Post by [deleted] »

em500 wrote: post #45
system16 wrote: post #19

Taiwan (Province of China) https://ipv4.dev.sarl/@zoom=10&ip=203.187.74.93 Interesting that a Taiwan IP range would be listed as "Province of China".

As others have noted, this is a legalese/formality issue (copied from ISO-3166), not a political statement. Note that IP ranges from provinces in mainland China are listed as "China", not "Province of China" (e.g. https://ipv4.dev.sarl/@zoom=16&ip=203.187.74.93 ). Additionally, the formal name of Taiwan is "Republic of China", so the loophole for formal purposes, as others have mentioned, is that the term "China" is…

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Re: Map of the Internet

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Post by 0xbadcafebee »

oaiey wrote: post #25
thejosh wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah a lot of surprising companies own a large amount of IP blocks. USPS for example - https://ipinfo.io/AS5774

It is called early adopters. As in: in the 80s (??) A random admin wrote a well written email and got what he wanted for free. Now they are worth millions.

My company owns some large IP blocks from a while back; they are mulling over selling them since they aren't in use. But then someone internal says "what if we need them for XYZ", so the sale is delayed. Easier to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.
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