Thread: Visual Trace Routing of any domain from your PC

Visual Trace Routing is nifty little tool to trace the route taken from your machine to the server where the said domain resides. It basically traces each hop's geographic location and displays it using Google Maps

The link also the following tools

1. Display the location of a network address
2. Identify open ports in your Internet connection

Let me know if this was useful in wasting your time in office ;-)

Originally Posted by vikramjb

Visual Trace Routing is nifty little tool to trace the route taken from your machine to the server where the said domain resides. It basically traces each hop's geographic location and displays it using Google Maps

The link also the following tools

1. Display the location of a network address
2. Identify open ports in your Internet connection

Let me know if this was useful in wasting your time in office ;-)

thanks for the info ... but can you tell my why my port 80 and 53 were (http and dns) shown closed on that site? i dont know. are they supposed to be opened?

Originally Posted by saurav_kataruka

thanks for the info ... but can you tell my why my port 80 and 53 were (http and dns) shown closed on that site? i dont know. are they supposed to be opened?

Your own http port (80) must not be open. Only if you are hosting a website, you must open this port. Same applies to DNS port as well.

Just tried the website. Thanks for the info btw

Host trace to
59.93.xx.xx
20 hops / 76.4 seconds

1. clusterserver.net
2. mediatemple.net
3. mediatemple.net
4. net2ez.com
5. net2ez.com
6. 208.174.194.145
7. savvis.net
8. 208.173.157.14
9. as6453.net
10. as6453.net
11. as6453.net
12. as6453.net
13. as6453.net
14. 116.0.79.10
15. vsnl.net.in
16. vsnl.net.in
17. 202.54.185.229
18. 218.248.255.85
19. 218.248.253.110
20. 59.93.17.250

~15,134 miles traveled

Originally Posted by cool_techie_tvm

Just tried the website. Thanks for the info btw

welcome , its a fun to watch the network connection going from on region to another region. Think of, all these distance are travelled within seconds makes me think how technology has advanced in these last couple of years what might our future hold . Maybe we will also wear those Space Jump suits we keep seeing our all those Sci Fi movies.

@ cool_techie ..

what was that? i didnt find anything like that on these links ... probably i am missing something ...

Originally Posted by saurav_kataruka

@ cool_techie ..

what was that? i didnt find anything like that on these links ... probably i am missing something ...

I just posted the results obtained for my IP.

Originally Posted by cool_techie_tvm

I just posted the results obtained for my IP.

ok. actually i got mixed up with the other similar thread - where some other test links were posted ...