Now That's Strange

Am I getting onions now?

I just posted an article on DIgg (the Transactional Warfare piece.) Usually I watch an article for an hour after I post it -- people have questions and comments, and I want to be able to provide immediate feedback. Sometimes I also proof the article.

Looking at the logs, I get this:

Here's a page being loaded. The weird part is that the load happens from many different IP addresses at the same time

I wonder how one person could load a page and appear to be on multiple IP addresses at the same time? Looking some of them up, all of these hits are coming from AOL, but the IPs are vastly different. I wonder if this has something to do with gettging hit from onion routers?

No, they're not throwing rotten vegetables at me, at least yet. But an onion router would be kind of cool to have in your living room. Don't like an article? Thow an onion at a box on top of the TV and it comes out on the other side and hits the poor schmuck who wrote it.

Onion routers are:

The focus is on practical systems for low-latency Internet-based connections that resist traffic analysis, eavesdropping, and other attacks both by outsiders (e.g. Internet routers) and insiders (Onion Routing servers themselves). Onion Routing prevents the transport medium from knowing who is communicating with whom -- the network knows only that communication is taking place. In addition, the content of the communication is hidden from eavesdroppers up to the point where the traffic leaves the OR network.

The site is maintained by the U.S. Navy. Perhaps this is just something that AOL is doing -- some kind of massive node web traffic balancing. I'd be more likely to buy that if they were all part of the same IP adress block.

Who knows. I'm just glad they're not real onions.