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0 pointslode1y ago0 comments

Traceroute is easy to be misinterpreted, because it does not have insight in underlying networks like MPLS, which could be the cause of issues.

https://movingpackets.net/2017/10/06/misinterpreting-tracero... (discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15474043 )

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oxygen_crisis1y ago

They are only misleading if you allow yourself to be misled by them. It's an extremely informative measurement if you are aware of how it works and don't misinterpret the results.

perching_aix1y ago

None of these claims are mutually exclusive with one another.

"Great tool for misleading results." -> the results the tool provides are either mostly misleading (many are misleading), or are in large part misleading (a large part of each is misleading), potentially both

"Traceroute is easy to be misinterpreted" -> the results the tool provides are easy to misinterpret

"They are only misleading if you allow yourself to be misled by them" -> the results the tool provides require expertise to interpret, implying that otherwise they're (largely) misleading - the same thing the person said right above you

This is turning into a "well I like it and it has its place". Cool, it's just not what was being argued.

ta12431y ago

You can claim pretty much any tool is misleading then. If you don't know how curl works, with say following links, it's "misleading".

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