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Re: Looking Glass software - what's the current state of the art?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Kernen)
Mon Feb 22 08:42:23 2010

Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:41:39 +0100
From: Thomas Kernen <tkernen@deckpoint.ch>
To: Joel.Snyder@Opus1.COM
In-Reply-To: <4B817E63.1080505@opus1.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On 2/21/10 7:41 PM, Joel M Snyder wrote:
> We are migrating our web server from platform A to mutually incompatible
> platform B and as a result the 7-year-old DCL script I wrote that does
> Looking Glass for us needs to be replaced. (from my comments, looks like
> I stole the idea from ejk@digex.net...)
>
> I'm guessing that someone else has done a better job and I should be
> just downloading and using an open source tool.
>
> What's the current thinking on a good standalone Looking Glass that can
> be opened to the Internet-at-large?
>
> jms
>

If you want to try other Looking Glass sources, I've listed a few of the 
more recent implementations here: http://www.traceroute.org/#source%20code

HTH,
Thomas


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