Re: help with connectivity check?

[Joel Jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>]

Jason Lewis wrote:
> This brings up something I've been thinking about.  Are there any free
> services that let you submit an IP and get traces back from multiple
> geographic locations?
>
> There are plenty of internet measurement projects, but none of them seem
> to let you do a live trace and get the data back in a parseable format.

not it's intended purpose however I would observe:

[jaeggli@winged-monkey ~]$ telnet route-views.routeviews.org
Trying 128.223.51.103...
Connected to route-views.routeviews.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
C
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                    Oregon Exchange BGP Route Viewer
          route-views.oregon-ix.net / route-views.routeviews.org

 route views data is archived on http://archive.routeviews.org

 This hardware is part of a grant from Cisco Systems.
 Please contact help () routeviews org if you have questions or
 comments about this service, its use, or if you might be able to
 contribute your view.

 This router has views of the full routing tables from several ASes.
 The list of ASes is documented under "Current Participants" on
 http://www.routeviews.org/.

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 route-views.routeviews.org is now using AAA for logins.  Login with
 username "rviews".  See http://routeviews.org/aaa.html

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User Access Verification

Username: rviews
route-views.oregon-ix.net>traceroute google.com

Type escape sequence to abort.
Tracing the route to google.com (209.85.171.100)

  1 vl-51.uonet1-gw.uoregon.edu (128.223.51.2) [AS 3582] 0 msec 0 msec 0
msec
  2 0.ge-0-1-0.uonet8-gw.uoregon.edu (128.223.3.8) [AS 3582] 0 msec 0
msec 0 msec
  3 eugn-car1-gw.nero.net (207.98.64.65) [AS 3582] 0 msec 0 msec 0 msec
  4 eugn-core2-gw.nero.net (207.98.64.162) [AS 3701] 0 msec 4 msec 0 msec
  5 ptck-core2-gw.nero.net (207.98.64.10) [AS 3701] 0 msec 4 msec 4 msec
  6  *  *  *
  7 72.14.239.13 [AS 15169] [MPLS: Label 736513 Exp 4] 4 msec 8 msec 8 msec
  8 72.14.233.117 [AS 15169] [MPLS: Label 532102 Exp 4] 52 msec 56 msec
52 msec
  9 209.85.240.159 [AS 15169] 52 msec 52 msec 56 msec
 10 google.com (209.85.171.100) [AS 15169] 52 msec 52 msec 52 msec

> jas
>
> Edward B. DREGER wrote:
> > EBD> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:13:48 +0000 (GMT)
> > EBD> From: Edward B. DREGER
> >
> > Many thanks to all who have responded.  I think/hope I have enough
> > information now!