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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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Evaluation

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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