RIPE Atlas traceroute visualisation - use cases
Hello, We are creating a tool to visualise traceroute results coming from the RIPE Atlas measurement network. The tool will of course be available to everyone. To help make this tool as useful as possible, I’m gathering use cases of day-to-day operations and research activities that use traceroute measurements. I hope you can spend a few minutes to answer this email and tell me how you use traceroute measurements or what you would like to have in such a tool. For each use case you have in mind, please describe it briefly. Keep in mind our system can collect measurements from multiple sources to a single target repeatedly (e.g. every 60 seconds). Don’t focus only on traceroute data, but also on correlations among traceroutes and BGP, RTT, geolocations, DNS, and registry information (feel free to expand the list to other datasets). Thanks for your time. Your help is invaluable. Ciao, Massimo RIPE NCC
On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 10:59:24AM +0200, Massimo Candela <mcandela@ripe.net> wrote a message of 86 lines which said:
I hope you can spend a few minutes to answer this email and tell me how you use traceroute measurements or what you would like to have in such a tool. For each use case you have in mind, please describe it briefly.
Well, my usage is simple: when I run a test (DNS, ping) and a few of the probes fail or give an unexpected result, I run a traceroute from these probes to try to find out why they failed. I use a modified version of <https://github.com/RIPE-Atlas-Community/ripe-atlas-community-contrib/blob/master/traceroute.py> (I should commit it, one day) and <https://github.com/RIPE-Atlas-Community/ripe-atlas-community-contrib/blob/master/json2traceroute.py>
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Massimo Candela
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Stephane Bortzmeyer