A bit unrelated... but I find it interesting that the same person who programmed this (csvoss on github) is also the developer of two other projects trending on HN right now.<p>Python oneliner: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10114969" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10114969</a><p>Retroactive data structures: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10119065" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10119065</a><p>Coincidence? Or is this just a slow hour on HN and good time to get submissions on front page?
Any reason why all CloudFlare connections bounce through TeliaSonera in Switzerland? It seems grossly inefficient to cross the Atlantic twice just to get from Massachusetts to California.<p>Also, MIT -> Facebook : MA, MI, Singapore, Ireland, CA?<p>How accurate is the data?
Slick. It also points out how inaccurate GeoIP is depending on which data source was used for that IP (eg. where the ISP is registered vs. where the endpoint may physically be).
Why does 1.1.1.1 land you at google headquarters?<p>Whois says APNIC-LABS in Australia, but apparently this subnet is "routed briefly for passive testing".
I've always described this as a visual, rather than text-based, traceroute. The site might benefit from keyword searching if visual traceroute was included.<p>Prior art: <a href="http://www.monitis.com/traceroute/" rel="nofollow">http://www.monitis.com/traceroute/</a>
Would it also be possible to add the times to each step? It would be interesting to compare the time vs reported distance. I suspect the times for some hops will be impossibly fast due to bad geo-ip lookups.
Results are not very accurate. For example, we are hosted in AWS us-west-1 (San Francisco), but because Amazon owns the IP it is routing to their HQ in Seattle Washington.
reminds me of xtraceroute back in the days: <a href="http://www.tucows.com/preview/31913/Xtraceroute" rel="nofollow">http://www.tucows.com/preview/31913/Xtraceroute</a>
Isn't this just like the visual traceroute from <a href="http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/visual-tracert" rel="nofollow">http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/visual-tracert</a> ?