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DOGMATICA
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?)
lijunhao
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.

nickserv
JavaScript required just to read a page describing a CLI tool? I'll pass.
bantunes
This seems to be a Chrome app, since I can't get it to work on Firefox
cassianoleal
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
bradknowles
I see nothing at all when I go to the page at https://www.nxtrace.org/

Am I missing something?

sliken
Worked yesterday.
bradknowles
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?

lijunhao
nexttrace provide the geolocation information of IP in the output.

BTW, the author also enhance the nali project (nali-nt) to add geolocation information to mtr output.

mtr -n4 tj.189.cn | ./nali-nt_linux_amd64

https://github.com/nxtrace/nali

bradknowles
Last time I looked at `mtr`, I believe that geolocation was already available.