How big is the Internet?

[patrick at ianai.net (Patrick W. Gilmore)]

On Aug 15, 2013, at 20:02 , Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
>> From: "Warren Bailey" <wbailey at 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 per my original post to this thread, that would remove all traffic from Akamai on-net nodes, Google's GGC nodes, Netflix's on-net Open Connect nodes, and many others.

If you are a broadband network in many countries, that is well over half the traffic going down your customer's pipes.

I think most people would alter their definition to count that traffic.


> As for your DNS question: the interior query isn't, per-se, but the 
> repeated one from your resolver/proxy *is*.

I don't think the type of packet (DNS, HTTP, SMTP, etc. or even TCP, IP, ICMP) should matter.

-- 
TTFN,
patrick

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