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Trace Route Visualizer
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swordensenDate Published
While I was going to school and working at Daybreak Games as Tech Support, we had a problem with players being frequently kicked or completely unable to connect to the game. One of the tools we used was the tracert command to see the path the internet took to reach their computer from our server.
While this was helpful diagnosing latency issues, I discovered that if the path passed through Iran their connection would be completely cut off due to U.S. Sanctions (Daybreak Games is/was a U.S. based company).
So, I built a visualizer to make it easier to determine if the user's connection was sourced from or passing through Iran.