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- evandrix 11y agoDEBUG = True error page when visiting http://csvoss.mit.edu/traceroute/request http://csvoss.mit.edu/traceroute/request @ http://i.imgur.com/ry9Voss.jpg http://i.imgur.com/ry9Voss.jpg
- csvoss 11y agoFixed DEBUG to be False now -- thanks! I'll see if I can fix this 500, too. :)
- evandrix 11y agoany chance tracing to a malicious server via this can attack scripts.mit.edu?
- geofft 11y agoAll I can think of is stuff like DNS cache poisoning from forcing lookups, which shouldn't be a threat these days (and there are infinite other ways to force the server to do DNS lookups). The purpose of scripts.mit.edu involves students and faculty running old versions of WordPress and writing custom PHP to learn the language, so the threat model very much assumes that malicious people have compromised at least one unprivileged account at any given time. Hostname lookups are a drop in the bucket compared to that.
- t3ra 11y agoIP Lookups are incorrect Ex : India.gov.in [from suggestions] is on 164.100.129.97 / Page traces to some IP in China (Hysterical)!
- csvoss 11y agoYeah, the MaxMind data is as of March 2014 -- out of date. Sorry about that!
- coderholic 11y agoIf you're interested in using the http://ipinfo.io http://ipinfo.io API for this, so you don't have to worry about keeping your database up to date and you get additional details, let me know. I'd be happy to hook you up with a free unlimited plan specifically for this site.
- csvoss 11y agoSweet, I'd be interested! Ping me with your contact information, and I can let you know once I've wired it up to use that.
- solotronics 11y agoIt seems like your getting this info from ARIN? Do you happen to have any restrictions on this API? Thanks!
- fs111 11y agoreminds me of xtraceroute back in the days: http://www.tucows.com/preview/31913/Xtraceroute http://www.tucows.com/preview/31913/Xtraceroute
- evandrix 11y agouTorrent offers a nice viz over a 3D globe
- omginternets 11y agoI'm getting a 400
- csvoss 11y agoThis should be fixed now -- thanks!
- pwenzel 11y agoIt's fun to see how short the distance is when using tracerouting Akamai-hosted domains.
- oldmantaiter 11y agoSlick. 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).
- redthrowaway 11y agoAny 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. Also, MIT -> Facebook : MA, MI, Singapore, Ireland, CA? How accurate is the data?
- csvoss 11y agoThe data is as of March 2014, and therefore out of date -- I'm working on updating it right now. :) As I remember from when the data was fresh, sometimes you do get crazy hops across the Atlantic like that, though.
- hhw 11y agoMaxmind data is also often just wrong, updated or not. As a hosting provider with a number of IP ranges, we have to deal with submitting corrections to them, Google, ip2location, etc. all the time. Not sure why none of them seem to use very accurate methods to discern IP location. Since you're doing a traceroute anyhow, you'd be better off analyzing the transit hops, and specifically the city codes used in the reverse DNS entries.
- beambot 11y agoInternational hops make the traffic less illegally intercepted by domestic espionage organizations...?
- darkk 11y agoDo you verify geoip data using RTT to the hop and speed of light in optical fiber?
- wglass 11y agoDoesn't make sense. My AWS servers in Northern Viginia are being reported as being in Seattle area. And the route goes through London.
- CamperBob2 11y agoAgreed, most of the results I'm seeing don't make any sense at all. But IP geography has always been rather non-Euclidean. Pretty funny to see what happens with www.1and1.com (my hosting provider). Boston to Wichita to Philadelphia... via Switzerland?
- bdcravens 11y agoNot very accurate. Using owner's address apparently: AWS servers in us-east-1 are being reported as Seattle, where Amazon is headquartered.
- Bedon292 11y agoWould 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.
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- foobarbecue 11y agoWhy does 1.1.1.1 land you at google headquarters? Whois says APNIC-LABS in Australia, but apparently this subnet is "routed briefly for passive testing".
- _jomo 11y ago1.1.1.0/24 [0] is described as "Research prefix for APNIC Labs", but it is part of AS15169 [1] which is "Google Inc." Also part of that AS are 1.0.0.0/24 [2] and 1.2.3.0/24 "APNIC Debogon Project" [3]. Wikipedia has some information about Bogon filtering [4] and there have been some publications about the Debogon Project [5]. The now assigned addresses used to be unassigned "bogon" addresses, which are now assigned. I'm not sure why it's part of the Google AS, though. Maybe only because they get to see a lot of traffic? 0: http://ipinfo.io/AS15169/1.1.1.0/24 http://ipinfo.io/AS15169/1.1.1.0/24 1: http://ipinfo.io/AS15169 http://ipinfo.io/AS15169 2: http://ipinfo.io/AS15169/1.0.0.0/24 http://ipinfo.io/AS15169/1.0.0.0/24 3: http://ipinfo.io/AS15169/1.2.3.0/24 http://ipinfo.io/AS15169/1.2.3.0/24 4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogon_filtering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogon_filtering 5: http://meetings.apnic.net/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/18811/dranse-1slash8.pdf http://meetings.apnic.net/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/18811/...
- resc1440 11y agoI can't zoom in far enough to see many of the hops :(
- csvoss 11y agoUpdate: I've downloaded the GeoLite data from April 2015, replacing the old March 2014 data! You should now be seeing more accurate results. :)
- ksrm 11y agoStill not very accurate. It thinks my DigitalOcean droplet is in Russia. (actually in London)
- dangerlibrary 11y ago.ru sure?
- notfoss 11y agoYes, he ".is".
- evandrix 11y agoWhere's the direct link to obtain a copy of this updated GeoLite data (Apr 2015) pls?
- matthewbauer 11y agoGeo lookup for some IPs will resolve to "US" which resolves to that long/lat in the middle of Kansas in case anyone was confused.
- DINKDINK 11y agoI've always described this as a visual, rather than text-based, traceroute. The site might benefit from keyword searching if visual traceroute was included. Prior art: http://www.monitis.com/traceroute/ http://www.monitis.com/traceroute/
- RankingMember 11y agoIsn't this just like the visual traceroute from http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/visual-tracert http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/visual-tracert ?
- jakeway 11y agoA 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. Python oneliner: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10114969 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10114969 Retroactive data structures: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10119065 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10119065 Coincidence? Or is this just a slow hour on HN and good time to get submissions on front page?
- csvoss 11y agoTell me about it. I've been having an exciting morning... The oneliner was submitted early this morning, and that seems to have been the catalyst for the others.
- detroitcoder 11y agoStrike while the iron is hot.
- andrepd 11y agoAdd this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10119055 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10119055
- nodesocket 11y agoResults 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.
- alexbilbie 11y agoIt does say on the site "Uses GeoLite data from MaxMind, March 2014." So not only is the Maxmind data well over a year out of date it's [citation needed] likely to be the free dataset which is only a subset of the Maxmind purchasable data
- Snow_44 11y agoVery interesting and having a lot of fun..
- A010 11y agoTried with my VPS in Singapore but it failed. Edit: It can't be serious, the packets bounced from MA to MI then ended at VA.
- wonjun 11y agoCool!
- elktea 11y agoIt tries to look up IPv6 addresses as domain names, unfortunately.