A year ago this was posted about the Iraqi IP space. I found myself revisiting the page today and it got me to thinking -- how does the state of the network correllate to the conflict in Iraq? The network obviously requires power. So I should be able to get an estimate of the state of the power grid by simply checking across all IP blocks that were listed in the previously mentioned link.
How to Determine if This is True?- Acquire a list of IPs in Iraq.
You can use the list in the article or pull it down from [www.ipdeny.com]
- Geolocate those IPs as best as you can
You can pull this data from a number of sources.
- Group IPs into known regions / cities of interest
- Ping sweep the IPs in groups of cities marking hosts up / hosts down
- Repeat ping sweeps and delete / add new IP blocks if necessary and repeat for n weeks.
- Correlate data with estimates of outages from sources like the UN
As an added benefit you can try to correlate dates of your sweeps with various news articles and military actions.