AARNET Traceroute tricks
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- Category: Reviews
- Published on Wednesday, 16 May 2012 00:07
- Written by Christian Dunn
AARNET, Australia's Research and Education network has some really handy tools available online to help you check just how far you are from the network and how well your links are performing.
Did you know you can run a traceroute from any AARNET external node to any host?
Try these:
You can also let them automatically choose the nearest node using their On Net/Off Net and Looking Glass Tool
So what is AARNET? The AARNET3 network links all major capital cities with a backbone extending from Brisbane through to Perth and additional links running both to Hobart and Darwin, via Alice Springs.These run a 10GBps network which connects into overseas Tier 1 links.
In other words, these guys are very well connected.