[165024] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How big is the Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Thu Aug 15 20:03:55 2013
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 20:02:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <CE328C6F.1C86%wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Warren Bailey" <wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com>
> I neglected to say one additional thing which I think may be worth reading
> before replying. I have always held the opinion that internet traffic
> isn't internet traffic until it hits the Internet, which I defined as
> two or more autonomous systems functioning on their own but possessing the
> ability to relay information between the two. I'm pretty sure that if
> you have a single network, you couldn't label it "inter" unless "inter"
> was between yourself - and then you have a network.. Not an internetwork.
I suspect that, to a first approximation, "traffic which passes through the
edge of at least one AS" is probably what most people think of as 'Internet'
traffic.
As for your DNS question: the interior query isn't, per-se, but the
repeated one from your resolver/proxy *is*.
Cheers,
-- jra
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