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- The database uses the Top Level Domain to identify the country. However some countries such as Tuvalu (.tv) and Djibouti (.dj short for music Disk Jockey) market their TLDs
- To improve performance, especially for regions with poor connectivity, there may be a proxy in another country.
- To improve performance for very popular sites they often have hosts with the same name distributed across the world.
- Internet routers are often identified as located at the corporate headquarters. This can lead to invalid visual traceroutes, see for example the VTrace gallery
- A host may move as the owning company moves from one site to another.
Incorrect result I
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traceroute to 193.220.46.70 (193.220.46.70), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 rtr-servcore1-nethub (134.79.19.4) 0.648 ms 0.228 ms 0.472 ms 2 rtr-core2-p2p-servcore1 (134.79.252.162) 0.342 ms 0.256 ms 0.271 ms 3 rtr-border1-p2p-core2 (134.79.252.137) 0.497 ms 0.926 ms 0.301 ms 4 192.68.191.245 (192.68.191.245) 0.562 ms 0.363 ms 0.481 ms 5 sunnsdn2-slacmr1.es.net (134.55.217.2) 0.619 ms 0.714 ms 0.748 ms 6 sunncr1-sunnsdn2.es.net (134.55.209.98) 1.023 ms 0.788 ms 0.931 ms MPLS Label=136016 CoS=0 TTL=1 S=1 7 paixpart2-sunncr1.es.net (134.55.218.133) 1.432 ms 1.409 ms 1.292 ms 8 unknown.Level3.net (209.245.146.145) 1.166 ms 1.217 ms 1.075 ms 9 so-2-1-0.bbr1.SanJose1.Level3.net (4.68.114.153) 3.574 ms 3.049 ms 3.790 ms 10 ae-1-0.bbr2.Dusseldorf1.Level3.net (212.187.128.21) 165.467 ms 165.667 ms 165.440 ms 11 so-3-0-0.mp1.Berlin1.Level3.net (4.68.128.42) 176.505 ms 224.081 ms 177.365 ms 12 ae-31-53.ebr1.Berlin1.Level3.net (4.68.108.94) 177.440 ms 190.223 ms 180.747 ms 13 ae-2-7.bar1.Stockholm1.Level3.net (4.69.140.201) 194.848 ms 194.563 ms 194.597 ms 14 VIZADA-NETW.bar1.Stockholm1.Level3.net (213.242.69.34) 203.616 ms 203.061 ms 203.522 ms 15 NO-NIT-TN-6.taide.net (193.219.193.136) 204.151 ms 204.134 ms 204.159 ms 16 193.220.46.65 (193.220.46.65) 740.045 ms 738.744 ms 739.817 ms 17 193.220.46.78 (193.220.46.78) 739.863 ms 739.441 ms 739.970 ms 18 193.220.46.70 (193.220.46.70) 741.354 ms 738.494 ms 739.066 ms |
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