NextTrace: An open source visual route tracking CLI tool

29 pointsposted 10 months ago
by lijunhao
(nxtrace.org)

11 Comments

DOGMATICA

10 months ago

Curious how the "NextTrace has been used for [number] times" banner works. Does it fire off a request to their site everytime it's used? (and if so, is it an over reaction to personally find that a little strange for a small-ish cli tool?)

lijunhao

10 months ago

I understand your concern and have consulted with the author.

When using the Nextrace API for IP geolocation, Nextrace performs Proof-of-Work (PoW) authentication first. Therefore, the website counts only these authentication requests.

Consequently, the statistics do not include requests using other IP APIs.

bradknowles

10 months ago

I see nothing at all when I go to the page at https://www.nxtrace.org/

Am I missing something?

sliken

10 months ago

Worked yesterday.

bradknowles

10 months ago

Well, it was down when I looked at it. It does seem to be back up now.

Which leads me to the next question — how is this any different/better than `mtr`? I’m not seeing any benefit here, but maybe I’m missing something?

lijunhao

10 months ago

nexttrace provide the geolocation information of IP in the output.

BTW, the author also enhance the nali project (nali-nt) to add geolocation information to mtr output.

mtr -n4 tj.189.cn | ./nali-nt_linux_amd64

https://github.com/nxtrace/nali

bradknowles

10 months ago

Last time I looked at `mtr`, I believe that geolocation was already available.

nickserv

10 months ago

JavaScript required just to read a page describing a CLI tool? I'll pass.

bantunes

10 months ago

This seems to be a Chrome app, since I can't get it to work on Firefox

cassianoleal

10 months ago

I tried it in Chromium and it didn't work either. It did remind me to blat Chromium from my computer though, so thanks! :D