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Cool hack of the day
Some folks at Northwestern were thinking about the problem of getting P2P systems like BitTorrent to prefer local peers. A local peer will be faster, more reliable, and cause less expense for the Internet as a whole.
Now, who do we know who has a widely deployed network of machines that are located as close to the edge as possible? That's right, Akamai! (And any other CDN, really.) So you resolve a known Akamaized domain name and see what the results are. The more your results overlap with some other P2P node, the closer you are, network-topologically speaking.
I saw it mentioned on Ars Technica. Here's the link to Ono (Hawaiian for 'good to eat', apparently.) http://www.aqualab.cs.northwestern.edu/projects/ono/developers.html
Now, who do we know who has a widely deployed network of machines that are located as close to the edge as possible? That's right, Akamai! (And any other CDN, really.) So you resolve a known Akamaized domain name and see what the results are. The more your results overlap with some other P2P node, the closer you are, network-topologically speaking.
I saw it mentioned on Ars Technica. Here's the link to Ono (Hawaiian for 'good to eat', apparently.) http://www.aqualab.cs.northwestern.edu/projects/ono/developers.html