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Show HN: Traceroute Visualizer(kriztalz.sh)
37 points by PranaFlux 4 days ago | 8 comments

This nifty tool plots the traceroute results and shows you the RTT as well as the distance travelled by the packets!

Supports MTR, flyingroutes and of course, traceroute.

The existing solutions were too limited so I made that.

Let me know if you have any feedback

OlivOnTech 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm on my phone, maybe your site would benefit having sample data available to showcase what it can do?

tonymet 33 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I love more tooling and attention given to latency . Throughput gets the attention but latency is what drives a high quality experience

kam an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The calls to the ipinfo.io API are blocked by Firefox Enhanced Tracking Protection. No results for Location or ISP without turning that off.

observationist 28 minutes ago | parent [-]

The site is flagged as "phishing" by Palo Alto - submitted change request.

edit: They updated from phishing to "computer and internet info" , no longer blocked.

Lalo-ATX 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

didn't work for me at all.

auto-detected my IPv4 addy, but my tracert to google.com went over IPv6.

I'm pretty skeptical about being able to geolocate router interfaces from IP addresses, so I was curious about the output. My expectations were low but they were too high. Oh well.

observationist a minute ago | parent [-]

In principle, if you ping from multiple known interfaces and paths, you can infer probable location, with confidence going up with the more known points of reference you have. You can do a little calculation and triangulation based off of latency and responsive known targets traversing the same path as the endpoint you're trying to geolocate, and get a very high confidence result for zip code, city, or maybe even 3-4 block radius, if there are a bunch of ISPs in the region. Even with only 3-4 ISPs, by sourcing from different directions along different networks you can get more resolution in the final estimated radius for geolocation.

You can even use a whole bunch of fuzzy rough estimations for endpoints in a region to get progressive increments in resolution until you're happy with a precise location. You can also use educated guesses about the type of router at each hop, then use response times and behaviors for pings coming from different directions at different times. If you can arrange to traverse a node and pump traffic over it, you can use behavior with different types of traffic to elicit the type of router, the policies in place, and so on.

It's a good idea to turn off responses to pings and minimize the amount of information available, even if it seems mostly harmless. The amount of information you can get from the public internet, just in terms of basic network utility functions and behaviors, is probably a lot more than most people ever consider.

Meph504 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm not sure if this worked as intended when tracert to google.com I get my IP, skips 13 hops, then 10 unknowns?

don_searchcraft 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This is pretty sweet, nice job. i dig the mapping visualization.