On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 05:53:45PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:51:20 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > I guess all folks with Ph.D. at Akamai really are paid for nothing if a > > virus could calculate that with a few traceroutes. > > It's actually pretty easy if you get 20K distributed zombies doing the > traceroutes and then distributing the data to each other. Given that > data, it's pretty easy to compute the graph - every router running BGP > has to do similar. :)
Sounds like said virus implementor should go into the optimized routing business. Personally I'm gonna call bullshit on that one until I see it done. > The Akamai problem is how to do it *without* having 20K boxes doing > traceroutes. ;) How many boxes does Akamai have? :) -- Richard A Steenbergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)
