Lightning Talk: Global Traceroute
Global Traceroute (https://www.globaltraceroute.com) is a front-end to do traceroutes from RIPE Atlas probes, which means you can now do quick and easy traceroutes …
| Talk Title | Lightning Talk: Global Traceroute |
| Speakers | Steve Gibbard, Link Level Consulting, LLC |
| Conference | NANOG74 |
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| Location | Vancouver, BC, Canada |
| Date | Oct 1 2018 - Oct 3 2018 |
| URL | Talk Page |
| Slides | Talk Slides |
| Video | Talk Video |
Global Traceroute (https://www.globaltraceroute.com) is a front-end to do traceroutes from RIPE Atlas probes, which means you can now do quick and easy traceroutes from most of the world’s major end user ISPs. Information about inbound paths is very important for troubleshooting routing problems, but it hasn’t been readily available. Various measurement systems provided information about performance issues, outbound paths, and what interface inbound traffic was coming in on. But determining the full path inbound traffic was taking — why users of some ISPs in Asia had their traffic show up in Europe, for instance, was much more difficult. Several looking glasses and commercial performance monitoring systems allowed traceroutes from their probes, but those often aren’t where end users were. RIPE Atlas had probes where a lot of end users were, but being designed as a research system, the user interface was cumbersome for every day troubleshooting. Global Traceroute uses the Atlas API, but is a more operator-friendly troubleshooting tool.
