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With Halloween right around the corner, I thought I’d share how I am building my Halloween costume. Ever play the electronic board game “Operation” - the one where you remove body parts from the naked guy but try to avoid touching the sides else causing his nose to light up and an annoying buzzer to [...]

DipZoom is “an approach to provide focused, on-demand Internet measurements.” By creating a Peer-to-Peer network of hosts around the world, clients can issue requests to specific hosts to perform various network measurements including curl, ping, traceroute, and dig.
For my purposes, I wanted to be able to download a single webpage from many different hosts located [...]

I needed a list of websites of all the Fortune 500 from 2007 for my masters project. Unfortunately, Fortune wanted to charge me hundreds of dollars to get some fancy excel spreadsheet with much more information than I really needed. I suspect there are other people out there who might find this list useful, so [...]

I had trouble compiling packit today, a network auditing tool that allows one to define (spoof) nearly all TCP, UDP, ICMP, IP, ARP, RARP, and Ethernet header options to test firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention systems, port scanning, simulating network traffic, and general TCP/IP auditing. I’m running OpenSUSE 10.1 and the compilation failed on a #include <net/bpf.h>. [...]

My masters project involves testing a large number of webservers. In order to test a large number of webservers I would obviously need a large list of them - at least 100,000. I got such a list by applying as a researcher with http://www.ircache.net. They offer (free for researchers, pay for others) trace files from [...]