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What is the Sarangworld Traceroute Project?

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What is the Sarangworld Traceroute Project?

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The Sarangworld Traceroute Project is an attempt to map the path between Internet-connected machines to geographic locations 1.2. How does it work? As a first step, the program will perform a traceroute from a public traceroute server to any given hostname. By default, the traceroute is performed from a randomly chosen traceroute server to your IP address, but this can be changed. After the traceroute is performed, each hostname is matched against a list of patterns to see if it matches a known pattern. If it does match a known pattern, a “code” value is extracted and this code is then converted to a city, state, country location. Finally, using a database of city latitudes and longitudes, the location of the hostname is mapped. 1.3. Why don’t you use the WHOIS record? Why is this better than the IP to Latitude/Longitude program? The IP to Latitude/Longitude program use the WHOIS record of a hostname to determine location. The WHOIS record yields the location of the administrative offi

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