Re: Visual traceroute tools

[Jesper Skriver <jesper () skriver dk>]

On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 10:59:00PM +0000, Chris Horry wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Andrew Brown wrote:
>
> > > > http://www.visualroute.com looks fairly cool to me.
> > >
> > > But it doesn't seem to use rfc1712 or rfc1876
> >
> > i can't say for sure, but i think it just guesses based on the owner
> > of the address block.
>
> Guesses on owner of address block, whois records, LOC records, its own
> database and if all else fails, the TLD.  It reports unknown locations 
> to the master server as well, which is nice.  Very good piece of software
> :-)

Just been in contact with them, and they currently does not support
rfc1876 LOC records.

/Jesper

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