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Re: Show HN: My Project, One month later

#11

Post by iSloth »

AndyJPartridge wrote: post #8
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.

I plan to add multiple locations over the next week or so, you will be able to select where you want the source to be, or have multiple sources :)

Re: Show HN: My Project, One month later

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Post by iSloth »

vmind wrote: post #13

Fairly neat, bug report: Tracing a route to Japan that goes through the US ends up with a line just going off to the left: http://i.imgur.com/TXlE0.png

Thanks will look into that.

FYI - all results have a saved link, no need to screenshot :)

Example of yours - http://saved.route.im/a584

Re: Show HN: My Project, One month later

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Post by iSloth »

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.

Clickable link in the stats page, added :)

Re: Show HN: My Project, One month later

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Post by verelo »

Pretty nifty idea, i'd be interested in having something along these lines in my project (We're doing website monitoring http://www.verelo.com and provide a basic traceroute when something goes wrong)

Have you considered selling this as a service to someone like say, me? I'd be pretty great for us to do an api request for a traceroute, and get back a json response of the route data and maybe a link which displays the image.

Just an idea.

Re: Show HN: My Project, One month later

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Post by johnpowell »

iSloth wrote: post #14
vmind wrote: post #13

Fairly neat, bug report: Tracing a route to Japan that goes through the US ends up with a line just going off to the left: http://i.imgur.com/TXlE0.png

Thanks will look into that. FYI - all results have a saved link, no need to screenshot :) Example of yours - http://saved.route.im/a584

The IP I checked is in New Jersey. So it was kind of close.

http://saved.route.im/aacf

Re: Show HN: My Project, One month later

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Post by iSloth »

verelo wrote: post #16

Pretty nifty idea, i'd be interested in having something along these lines in my project (We're doing website monitoring http://www.verelo.com and provide a basic traceroute when something goes wrong) Have you considered selling this as a service to someone like say, me? I'd be pretty great for us to do an api request for a traceroute, and get back a json response of the route data and maybe a link which displays the…

Thanks for the feedback it's greatly appreciated, your idea should actually be simple to implement, as all data is stored in json format for archival and just processed back to html when requested (e.g. http://saved.route.im/aafe)

I will have a play around with an API and see what comes of it :)

Get in contact with me if you would like to discuss further, contact link at bottom of website.

Re: Show HN: My Project, One month later

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Post by pors »

vmind wrote: post #13

Fairly neat, bug report: Tracing a route to Japan that goes through the US ends up with a line just going off to the left: http://i.imgur.com/TXlE0.png

The problem with visualization of traceroute results is that it needs a very reliable GEO-IP database. They exist, but are very expensive. Hops that are not in cities (but in some ocean) are often placed in the city of the owner of the router. With the rise of IPv6 this only becomes worst.
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