NextTrace: An open source visual route tracking CLI tool

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Post by lijunhao » Thu, Nov 14, 2024, 12:42 AM UTC

NextTrace: An open source visual route tracking CLI tool
nxtrace.org

Re: NextTrace: An open source visual route tracking CLI tool

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Post by DOGMATICA » Thu, Nov 14, 2024, 6:55 AM UTC

Curious how the "NextTrace has been used for [number] times" banner works. Does it fire off a request to their site everytime it's used? (and if so, is it an over reaction to personally find that a little strange for a small-ish cli tool?)

Re: NextTrace: An open source visual route tracking CLI tool

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Post by Lorin » Thu, Nov 14, 2024, 8:13 AM UTC

Site not loading at all, `https://www.nxtrace.org/static/js/main.4678cf79.js net::ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS` in DevTools console.

Re: NextTrace: An open source visual route tracking CLI tool

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Post by nickserv » Thu, Nov 14, 2024, 8:13 AM UTC

JavaScript required just to read a page describing a CLI tool? I'll pass.

Re: NextTrace: An open source visual route tracking CLI tool

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Post by bantunes » Thu, Nov 14, 2024, 8:23 AM UTC

This seems to be a Chrome app, since I can't get it to work on Firefox

Re: NextTrace: An open source visual route tracking CLI tool

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Post by bradknowles » Thu, Nov 14, 2024, 9:06 AM UTC

I see nothing at all when I go to the page at https://www.nxtrace.org/

Am I missing something?

Re: NextTrace: An open source visual route tracking CLI tool

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Post by cassianoleal » Thu, Nov 14, 2024, 9:50 AM UTC

bantunes wrote: post #5

This seems to be a Chrome app, since I can't get it to work on Firefox

I tried it in Chromium and it didn't work either. It did remind me to blat Chromium from my computer though, so thanks! :D

Re: NextTrace: An open source visual route tracking CLI tool

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Post by sliken » Thu, Nov 14, 2024, 5:06 PM UTC

bradknowles wrote: post #6

I see nothing at all when I go to the page at https://www.nxtrace.org/ Am I missing something?

Worked yesterday.

Re: NextTrace: An open source visual route tracking CLI tool

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Post by bradknowles » Fri, Nov 15, 2024, 5:24 PM UTC

sliken wrote: post #8

bradknowles wrote: post #6

I see nothing at all when I go to the page at https://www.nxtrace.org/ Am I missing something?

Worked yesterday.

Well, it was down when I looked at it. It does seem to be back up now.

Which leads me to the next question — how is this any different/better than `mtr`? I’m not seeing any benefit here, but maybe I’m missing something?

Re: NextTrace: An open source visual route tracking CLI tool

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Post by lijunhao » Sat, Nov 16, 2024, 6:44 AM UTC

DOGMATICA wrote: post #2

Curious how the "NextTrace has been used for [number] times" banner works. Does it fire off a request to their site everytime it's used? (and if so, is it an over reaction to personally find that a little strange for a small-ish cli tool?)

I understand your concern and have consulted with the author.

When using the Nextrace API for IP geolocation, Nextrace performs Proof-of-Work (PoW) authentication first. Therefore, the website counts only these authentication requests.

Consequently, the statistics do not include requests using other IP APIs.