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GTrace - Geographical Traceroute
Ram Periakarrupen
Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA)
San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
URL: http://www.caida.org/tools/visualization/gtrace/
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Data Sources:
(Source1): traceroute to destination returns paths along route,
recording:
- Hop number
- IP address
- RTT (msec)
(Source2): GTrace databases: Machine.db, Organization.db, Hosts.db,
Cities.db, Airport.db, additional dbs if added by user.
(Source3): NetGeo database
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Data Specification:
(Data1):
RFC1876 DNS LOC
(Data2):
RFC1918 IP Addresses
(Data3):
RFC954 NICNAME / WHOIS records
(Data4):
RFC1393 Traceroute Using IP
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Data Aggregation:
Map IP address to hostname and lat/long using:
- Host DNS LOC record
- DBs from GTrace config file (5 bundled with GTrace + those
added by user)
- Domain parsing file
- Hostname reduction match
- NetGeo whois info
- State or country code
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Data Filters:
None.
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