A traceroute library written in Go.

Must be run as sudo on OS X (and others)?

go build cmd/gotraceroute
sudo ./gotraceroute example.com

See the code in cmd/gotraceroute.go for an example of how to use the library from within your application.

The traceroute.Traceroute() function accepts a domain name and an options struct and returns a TracerouteResult struct that holds an array of TracerouteHop structs.

Useful resources:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traceroute
• https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc792
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Control_Message_Protocol

• https://code.google.com/p/go/source/browse/src/pkg/net/ipraw_test.go
• https://godoc.org/code.google.com/p/go.net/ipv4
• https://golang.org/pkg/syscall/