NextTrace: An open source visual route tracking CLI tool

bradknowles1y ago· 2 in thread

I see nothing at all when I go to the page at https://www.nxtrace.org/

Am I missing something?

Worked yesterday.

Well, it was down when I looked at it. It does seem to be back up now.

Which leads me to the next question — how is this any different/better than `mtr`? I’m not seeing any benefit here, but maybe I’m missing something?

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DOGMATICA1y ago· 1 in thread

Curious how the "NextTrace has been used for [number] times" banner works. Does it fire off a request to their site everytime it's used? (and if so, is it an over reaction to personally find that a little strange for a small-ish cli tool?)

lijunhaoOP1y ago

I understand your concern and have consulted with the author.

When using the Nextrace API for IP geolocation, Nextrace performs Proof-of-Work (PoW) authentication first. Therefore, the website counts only these authentication requests.

Consequently, the statistics do not include requests using other IP APIs.

bantunes1y ago· 1 in thread

This seems to be a Chrome app, since I can't get it to work on Firefox

cassianoleal1y ago

I tried it in Chromium and it didn't work either. It did remind me to blat Chromium from my computer though, so thanks! :D

nickserv1y ago

JavaScript required just to read a page describing a CLI tool? I'll pass.

Lorin1y ago

Site not loading at all, `https://www.nxtrace.org/static/js/main.4678cf79.js net::ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS` in DevTools console.

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