Show HN: My Project, One month later

#1

Post by iSloth » Sat, Feb 04, 2012, 11:01 AM UTC

Show HN: My Project, One month later
traceroute.im

Re: Show HN: My Project, One month later

#2

Post by iSloth » Sat, Feb 04, 2012, 11:02 AM UTC

Thanks for all your comments from when this was last posted, one month has since been and gone, there has been quite a few updates in response to the comments.

I would be grateful for your comments again, negative and positive comments are welcomed equally.

Re: Show HN: My Project, One month later

#3

Post by dexter314 » Sat, Feb 04, 2012, 11:41 AM UTC

I don't think this works as i imagined it would, it differs from tracert(command prompt), i always get some weird connections from usa or germany/france while i traceroute.im my local sites (slovenia), tracert(command prompt) doesn't show these, see what im getting at?

Great idea btw, reminds me of uplink i always wanted to see that for real.

Re: Show HN: My Project, One month later

#4

Post by zizee » Sat, Feb 04, 2012, 11:46 AM UTC

iSloth wrote: post #2

Thanks for all your comments from when this was last posted, one month has since been and gone, there has been quite a few updates in response to the comments. I would be grateful for your comments again, negative and positive comments are welcomed equally.

I missed this the first time, perhaps you could provide a link to the HN thread from a month ago.

Re: Show HN: My Project, One month later

#5

Post by soult » Sat, Feb 04, 2012, 11:53 AM UTC

dexter314 wrote: post #3

I don't think this works as i imagined it would, it differs from tracert(command prompt), i always get some weird connections from usa or germany/france while i traceroute.im my local sites (slovenia), tracert(command prompt) doesn't show these, see what im getting at? Great idea btw, reminds me of uplink i always wanted to see that for real.

Traceroute.im perfroms a traceroute from the traceroute.im server to the site you specify. The local tracert program performs a traceroute from your computer to the site you specify. Additionally, tracert (windows variant) usually does ICMP probes while I assume traceroute.im uses Linux traceroute and thus UDP probes, but that shouldn't change the route your trace takes.

Re: Show HN: My Project, One month later

#6

Post by iSloth » Sat, Feb 04, 2012, 12:11 PM UTC

zizee wrote: post #4

iSloth wrote: post #2

Thanks for all your comments from when this was last posted, one month has since been and gone, there has been quite a few updates in response to the comments. I would be grateful for your comments again, negative and positive comments are welcomed equally.

I missed this the first time, perhaps you could provide a link to the HN thread from a month ago.

Sure, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3399364

Re: Show HN: My Project, One month later

#7

Post by AndyJPartridge » Sat, Feb 04, 2012, 12:23 PM UTC

You could make it more educational by explaining what some of the terms on the page mean.

For example, I don't currently know what the ASN is.

The top-10 lists are amusing, and I'd make the results there links to the engine so we can avoid having to type 127.0.0.1 to see what happens.

Re: Show HN: My Project, One month later

#8

Post by AndyJPartridge » Sat, Feb 04, 2012, 12:26 PM UTC

AndyJPartridge wrote: post #7

You could make it more educational by explaining what some of the terms on the page mean. For example, I don't currently know what the ASN is. The top-10 lists are amusing, and I'd make the results there links to the engine so we can avoid having to type 127.0.0.1 to see what happens.

Ah :-)

"Autonomous System numbers (ASNs) are globally unique identifiers for Autonomous Systems."

I'd also add some information as to where/why the origin of the trace route is - I'm not sure how useful it is to have it come from some random location in France for me.

Re: Show HN: My Project, One month later

#9

Post by iSloth » Sat, Feb 04, 2012, 12:27 PM UTC

AndyJPartridge wrote: post #7

You could make it more educational by explaining what some of the terms on the page mean. For example, I don't currently know what the ASN is. The top-10 lists are amusing, and I'd make the results there links to the engine so we can avoid having to type 127.0.0.1 to see what happens.

ASN: autonomous system number, it's basically the ISP your traffic is routing through.

Thanks for the idea, will add some tool tips to the page, also I plan to have a link on the ASN so you can see the more detailed ISP information.

Re: Show HN: My Project, One month later

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Post by rplnt » Sat, Feb 04, 2012, 12:28 PM UTC

iSloth wrote: post #2

Thanks for all your comments from when this was last posted, one month has since been and gone, there has been quite a few updates in response to the comments. I would be grateful for your comments again, negative and positive comments are welcomed equally.

You have a typo in the graph header, "Responce Average". What might be good is showing reverse DNS lookup if the IP is specified (or even for domain if it is different).