Visual traceroute

[nicolafarina]

Would be great having a graphical map representation of hops around the world.

[BornToBeRoot]

Any idea how to do this? Are there public services available where i can check the geolocation of an ip address?

[RafalNiewinski]

GeoLite2 is one of possible solution

https://www.maxmind.com/en/open-source-data-and-api-for-ip-geolocation

[nicolafarina]

No idea, sorry.

[BornToBeRoot]

Visual traceroute might not be possible at this moment, but at least the geolocation of an ip would be nice.

I could implement a function to check an ip agains ipify.org (this is the same i use to determine the public ip).

The user needs to get an api key (1k request free / month) and can store it in the settings.
https://geo.ipify.org/pricing

@nicolafarina @RafalNiewinski would this be an option?

[nicolafarina]

Thanks for considering @BornToBeRoot but I suppose that, if no free full database, this can be much less useful than what we though. I honestly think that development in this feature is not meaningful.

[RafalNiewinski]

I also think that this is not crucial. Maybe someday there will be idea with a better solution.

[BornToBeRoot]

@RafalNiewinski @nicolafarina better late than never. Here is a preview of the Geo-IP API in Traceroute (no graphic map, but all infos):

Will be available in the next release 🥳

[nicolafarina]

Great!

Thanks!