A cool-as-shit dynamic traceroute powered by custom software, married with an informative article about how the BGP routing protocol works and guides the shape of the Internet.
  • NevermindNoMind@lemmy.world
    101·
    5 months ago

    Very interesting. So the VPN that comes with Google one is useless lol. The first time I connected it routed me through Google (like it’s supposed to), then through an ad network (!), then on my way. Switching it on and off half a dozen times for additional tests, it just didn’t bother routing through Google at all, just straight through my wireless carrier and showing the same user IP each time. So neat.

  • infeeeee
    7·
    5 months ago

    It’s just a reverse traceroute:

    My claim that this website’s traceroute was the path your packets took to reach my server was a bit of a white lie. To calculate that, I would’ve had to be able to run a traceroute to my server from your computer. Instead, I ran the traceroute from my server to your computer and just reversed it. That’s also why the traceroute at the top seemingly loads in reverse order.

    If I run traceroute to this server I get totally different results, ips are similar, but always different.

    To run traceroute on *nix:

    traceroute how-did-i-get-here.net

    You may have to install the traceroute package

    On windows:

    tracert how-did-i-get-here.net