Show HN: Traceroute Visualizer

#1

Post by PranaFlux » Mon, Sep 29, 2025, 8:31 AM UTC

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

Show HN: Traceroute Visualizer
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Re: Show HN: Traceroute Visualizer

#2

Post by idanatomix » Thu, Oct 02, 2025, 12:06 PM UTC

This is great! Really loved the tool, I would probably position the map over the table tbh..

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#3

Post by don_searchcraft » Thu, Oct 02, 2025, 6:41 PM UTC

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

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#4

Post by Meph504 » Thu, Oct 02, 2025, 7:02 PM UTC

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

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Post by OlivOnTech » Thu, Oct 02, 2025, 8:21 PM UTC

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

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#6

Post by Lalo-ATX » Thu, Oct 02, 2025, 8:24 PM UTC

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.

Re: Show HN: Traceroute Visualizer

#7

Post by kam » Thu, Oct 02, 2025, 8:45 PM UTC

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

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Post by Jenny858 » Thu, Oct 02, 2025, 9:16 PM UTC

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Post by tonymet » Thu, Oct 02, 2025, 9:25 PM UTC

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

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Post by observationist » Thu, Oct 02, 2025, 9:30 PM UTC

kam wrote: post #7

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

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.