travismunyer/traceroute-maps

This project to visualize the traceroute with maps

traceroute-maps

This project obtains a list of IP addresses along a route using traceroute. Then, a name resolver retrieves the domain information based on the list of IP addresses. Usually, the resolved domain information will include location as either an address and/or latitude longitude. The retrieved latitude and longitude is plotted on a map, which visually represents the physical route used to reach a ip address or domain name.

Below shows an example of the produced map. Note, the first few locations are redacted for privacy.

Further Suggested Changes

Currently, this tool uses ipapi to retrieve the domain information. The ipapi website has a paid and free version. The free version, which is used by this tool, will lock access after a relatively small number of retreival requests. The website then will prevent the ip address, or MAC address, from retreiving whois results for a short while. Attempts to use the tool during this time will not produce a result, as the tool breaks. Future iterations of this tool should instead directly query available Whois servers to get the domain information, or go through a public website such as icann.org. The websites or whois servers may not produce quite as friendly of a format as ipapi, so this will require extra engineering.

Summary:

• Change how the tool retreives whois data
• Also could display more data on each ip address, as more information is available from the whois query

Installation

pip install -r requirements.txt

Run

python main.py [ip/hostname/domain]