I pinged every IP address that wasn’t reserved. The image is 8k by 8k and is re-encoded as an AVIF to be friendlier to mobile devices. Like every other survey done, it is using a Hilbert Curve to convert the linear address space to a contiguous 2d space. The hotter the colors (blue is coolest), the denser the ping responses were.
(If you are interested the full-resolution pyramidal-tiled TIFF can be downloaded and viewed in QuPath on desktop. I’ve also compressed the ping response data into its own format down to about 150 MB. PM me for a link)
Here is a 2006 survey to compare.
Some observations: Big Tech (USA) is in the top left. US government allocations, for the most part, did not respond to any pings. And maybe you didn’t realize this before, but Multicast (Class D) & Class E consume a whopping 12% of the IPv4 range.
Oh, it’s working already, but way more hassle than the 'ol a.b.c.d stuff IMO!
They were joking, saying OP is working on pinging every IPv6 address right now. There are 3.4×1038 possible addresses, so if they started pinging a trillion IPs every second, they probably wouldn’t finish before our sun implodes.
Oh, whoosh I guess 😅