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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	Strengths: (Strength1): Useful for identifying network topology and gaining macroscopic insight into Internet infrastructure. (Strength2): Useful for discovering potentially inefficient routing. Issues: (Issue1): Can be slow. (Issue2): Accuracy would be much improved if the Internet community maintained DNS LOC records, or a better NetGeo database was available.
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