Traceroute

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:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10114969" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10114969</a><p>Retroactive data structures: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10119065" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;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 -&gt; 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).

IP Lookups are incorrect<p>Ex : India.gov.in [from suggestions] is on 164.100.129.97 &#x2F; Page traces to some IP in China (Hysterical)!

Update: I&#x27;ve downloaded the GeoLite data from April 2015, replacing the old March 2014 data! You should now be seeing more accurate results. :)

Why does 1.1.1.1 land you at google headquarters?<p>Whois says APNIC-LABS in Australia, but apparently this subnet is &quot;routed briefly for passive testing&quot;.

Not very accurate. Using owner&#x27;s address apparently: AWS servers in us-east-1 are being reported as Seattle, where Amazon is headquartered.

I&#x27;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:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.monitis.com&#x2F;traceroute&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.monitis.com&#x2F;traceroute&#x2F;</a>

DEBUG = True error page when visiting <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;csvoss.mit.edu&#x2F;traceroute&#x2F;request" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;csvoss.mit.edu&#x2F;traceroute&#x2F;request</a><p>@ <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;ry9Voss.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;ry9Voss.jpg</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.

I&#x27;m getting a 400

Geo lookup for some IPs will resolve to &quot;US&quot; which resolves to that long&#x2F;lat in the middle of Kansas in case anyone was confused.

Doesn&#x27;t make sense. My AWS servers in Northern Viginia are being reported as being in Seattle area. And the route goes through London.

Tried with my VPS in Singapore but it failed.<p>Edit: It can&#x27;t be serious, the packets bounced from MA to MI then ended at VA.

It&#x27;s fun to see how short the distance is when using tracerouting Akamai-hosted domains.

reminds me of xtraceroute back in the days: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tucows.com&#x2F;preview&#x2F;31913&#x2F;Xtraceroute" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tucows.com&#x2F;preview&#x2F;31913&#x2F;Xtraceroute</a>

It tries to look up IPv6 addresses as domain names, unfortunately.

I can&#x27;t zoom in far enough to see many of the hops :(

Very interesting and having a lot of fun..

uTorrent offers a nice viz over a 3D globe

any chance tracing to a malicious server via this can attack scripts.mit.edu?

Cool!

Isn&#x27;t this just like the visual traceroute from <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.yougetsignal.com&#x2F;tools&#x2F;visual-tracert" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.yougetsignal.com&#x2F;tools&#x2F;visual-tracert</a> ?