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Re: Internet diameter?


From: "Bajpai, Vaibhav" <vaibhav.bajpai () tum de>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2018 12:53:50 +0000

Hello,

Does anybody have more or less recent data on the average, median and
maximum diameter (ip hop count) of the Internet? My google fu is
failing me: I've only found stuff from the ‘90s.

In the past 2 years of running `traceroute` towards YouTube from 
home networks, the maximum IP path length we have seen is around 22 IP hops. 

details, see:
https://vaibhavbajpai.com/documents/papers/proceedings/youtube-traceroutes-commag-2018.pdf

Thanks,
Bill Herrin

PS: This (path lengths) is only towards YouTube destinations.

-- Vaibhav

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Vaibhav Bajpai
www.vaibhavbajpai.com

Postdoctoral Fellow
Technische Universität München
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