World-Wide Mapping of Reverse traceroute and looking glass Servers Wilfred Dittmer Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) University of California, San Diego (UCSD) URL: https://www.caida.org/research/routing/reversetrace Visualization Thumbnail Credits / Contact Info Authors: Perl scripts by Wilfred Dittmer Maps by VisualRoute NetGeo by CAIDA GeoPlot by CAIDA Contact Info: For further information, send email to: info @ caida.org Click Image for Full-Size Visualization Back

World-Wide Mapping of Reverse traceroute and looking glass Servers Wilfred Dittmer Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) University of California, San Diego (UCSD) URL: https://www.caida.org/research/routing/reversetrace Visualization Thumbnail Data Data Sources: (Source1): URL's and names of looking glass servers found on the web (Source2): URL's and names of traceroute servers found on the web (Source3): NetGeo database Data Specification: (Data1): NetGeo output {CITY, STATE, COUNTRY, LAT, LONG} (Data2): GeoPlot maps (Example)

World-Wide Mapping of Reverse traceroute and looking glass Servers Wilfred Dittmer Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) University of California, San Diego (UCSD) URL: https://www.caida.org/research/routing/reversetrace Visualization Thumbnail Evaluation Strengths: (Strength1): Useful for debugging routes (Are packets taking the best paths). (Strength2): Useful for investigating topologies. Issues: (Issue1): Additional services may be available depending on local configurations. (Issue2): Links may change over time and must be periodically checked.

World-Wide Mapping of Reverse traceroute and looking glass Servers Wilfred Dittmer Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) University of California, San Diego (UCSD) URL: https://www.caida.org/research/routing/reversetrace Visualization Thumbnail About the Visualization Visualization Techniques: (Technique1): Plot lat/long points using GeoPlot. Key Visualization Mappings: (Mapping1): Point color shows the availability of looking glass and traceroute servers in that region. Green = Traceroute server only Blue = Looking glass server only Red = Both traceroute and looking glass servers Visualization Tools: