Well my VUW honours project is now finished!
I conducted a study on the New Zealand Internet topology to discover where clients and content connect in to the backbone, categorising them by autonomous systems by using BGP dumps, web logs, and a complete dump of the .nz zone file.
I made a number of interesting discoveries, which I will eventually write up here, as well as include some of the source files for visualisation, but in the meantime you'll just have to read the PDF report:
New Zealand's Internet Landscape: An analysis of peering, content, and scalability. [PDF]
Also, since this project won the top-4 placement for VUW compsci projects of 2006, I presented it to the New Zealand Computer Society in Oct '06, the slides are available here:
New Zealand's Internet Landscape - Presentation to NZCS Oct 2006 [PDF]
Enjoy. Feel free to contact me if you want to chat about the findings - I know they're not perfect, but I also know how to do better if you want to give it a better shot!
