[IP] more on the experiment on ****yet***** Another new Google twist..
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From: Rob Knauerhase <knauer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: January 9, 2006 8:52:32 PM EST
To: David Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IP] more on ****yet***** Another new Google twist..
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 08:42:27PM -0500, David Farber wrote:
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From: Rodney Joffe <rjoffe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
But wait, there's more. I have also been noticing seemingly random
but frequent attempts to trigger firefox connections to various
planetlabs machines (http://www.planet-lab.org/) as a result of
Google searches. I think it is admirable that Google is supporting
the research world but were it not for my "littleSnitch" application,
I would have had no idea.
Without better logs, it's impossible to determine, but I expect that
what you're seeing has to do with Coral, a research project from folks
at NYU. Coral is a content-distribution network that runs on top of
the PlanetLab distributed testbed.
Most likely, you've hit a site (or sites) who have "coral-ized" their
content, which means your machine is obtaining a cached copy from a
PlanetLab node. This has nothing to do with Google (although they
are tangentially involved in PlanetLab as a research testbed), except
perhaps for the pre-fetching activities already discussed on this list.
More information is available from http://www.coralcdn.org/ .
[Disclaimers: I was on the team at Intel that helped develop
PlanetLab,
which is now mainted by the PlanetLab Consortium at Princeton Univ.
I have no affiliation with Coral other than having met many of the
folks involved. And of course, I don't speak for Intel in any
official capacity.]
Rob
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