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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: https://www.caida.org/catalog/software/gtrace/

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Data

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

Data Specification:
(Data1): RFC1876 DNS LOC
(Data2): RFC1918 IP Addresses
(Data3): RFC954 NICNAME / WHOIS records
(Data4): RFC1393 Traceroute Using IP

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

Data Filters:
None.

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