[25809] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Visual traceroute tools
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jesper Skriver)
Tue Nov 16 13:15:11 1999
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 19:13:50 +0100
From: Jesper Skriver <jesper@skriver.dk>
To: Chris Horry <zerbey@tanac.co.uk>
Cc: Andrew Brown <twofsonet@graffiti.com>,
Dennis Simpson <dennis@bconnex.net>, nanog@merit.edu
Message-ID: <19991116191350.A448@skriver.dk>
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9911152256480.2823-100000@gerontius.wibble.co.uk>; from zerbey@tanac.co.uk on Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 10:59:00PM +0000
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On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 10:59:00PM +0000, Chris Horry wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Andrew Brown wrote:
>
> >
> > >> http://www.visualroute.com looks fairly cool to me.
> > >
> > >But it doesn't seem to use rfc1712 or rfc1876
> >
> > i can't say for sure, but i think it just guesses based on the owner
> > of the address block.
>
> Guesses on owner of address block, whois records, LOC records, its own
> database and if all else fails, the TLD. It reports unknown locations
> to the master server as well, which is nice. Very good piece of software
> :-)
Just been in contact with them, and they currently does not support
rfc1876 LOC records.
/Jesper
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