Archeb/opentrace
Opentrace
Opentrace is a network diagnostic utility designed to analyze and map network paths. It combines real-time traceroute data with geographic IP resolution to provide a visual traceroute tool for detecting routing issues and network bottlenecks.
The project features interactive path visualization and geographic route mapping, transforming raw hop-by-hop data into spatial maps. It includes privacy-focused identity masking to hide initial network hops and supports custom DNS resolution, including DNS-over-HTTPS, and local IP database imports for geographic mapping without relying on remote API services.
The utility covers a broad range of network analysis capabilities, including continuous latency monitoring, packet loss tracking, and path stability analysis. It also provides a command-line interface to trigger diagnostic traces for integration with automated scripts and external workflows.
Features
- Network Route Visualization - Maps the route data packets take to a destination on a visual interface to identify network bottlenecks.
- Network Hop Geolocation - Maps the physical location of individual nodes in a network routing path using local IP databases.
- IP Location Data Imports - Supports importing local database files to resolve and display geographic information for network hops.
- Network Diagnostic Utilities - Provides a comprehensive utility for monitoring packet loss and latency across network hops to analyze path stability.
- Path Diagnostics - Analyzes network routing paths and individual hops to detect bottlenecks and routing issues in real-time.
- Network Diagnostics - Uses traceroute tools to identify the location of network failures and analyze traffic flow between points.
- Round-Trip Time Measurements - Measures round-trip time for each network jump by tracking packet transmission and ICMP responses.
- IP-to-City Localization - Maps network addresses to geographic locations using local binary data files to avoid remote API reliance.
- Network Latency Testing - Tracks packet loss and response delays across every hop to evaluate network connection stability.
- Path Stability Analysis - Provides real-time traceroute analysis to detect packet loss and evaluate network path stability.
- TTL-Based Path Discovery - Implements sequential probe packets with incrementing TTL values to identify every router between source and destination.
- Path Visualization Interfaces - Transforms raw hop-by-hop latency and loss data into a graphical map for spatial network analysis.
- Traceroute Visualizers - Offers a graphical interface for visualizing the network path packets take using traceroute and geographic mapping.
- Network Hop Masking - Includes privacy-focused identity masking to hide initial network hops during diagnostic tracing.
- Custom DNS Resolvers - Supports the use of specified external DNS servers and DNS-over-HTTPS endpoints for network resolution.
- Network Hop Masking - Hides initial network hops and utilizes custom DNS resolvers to protect identity during diagnostic tracing.
- Latency Monitoring - Runs continuous traces to track packet loss and latency across every network hop for performance monitoring.
- Network Diagnostic Automation - Enables triggering route traces via command line to integrate diagnostic data into external monitoring scripts.
- Geographic Route Visualization - Illustrates the hop-by-hop journey of data packets on a map through geographic route visualization.
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