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Traceroute visualization

3 regional paths

Compare structured ICMP hop sequences from one available Globalping probe in the United States, Germany, and Singapore.

Private and mixed public/private targets are blocked before the fixed Globalping API is contacted. Traces have a 25-second deadline and a five-minute cache.

No traceroute yetEnter one public hostname or IP address. URLs, paths, ports, wildcards, and private targets are rejected.

Topology and interpretation safeguards

The visualization is an ordered hop sequence, not a geographic route map: router addresses do not reliably identify physical locations. Private, shared, local, reserved, documentation, malformed, and other non-public hop addresses are replaced with “Internal hop hidden,” and raw command output is never rendered. Timed-out hops remain visible so a gap is not mistaken for a shorter path.

ICMP paths can change between packets and probes; routers may filter or deprioritize replies, and CDN or anycast DNS can resolve a different target per region. Ping and traceroute share one conservative 180-test rolling hourly ceiling below Globalping's documented 250-test anonymous allowance, plus per-connection throttling.

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