Section: New Software and Platforms

Service traceroute

Keywords: Network monitoring - Network diagnosis

Functional Description: Traceroute is often used to help diagnose when users experience issues with Internet applications or services. Unfortunately, probes issued by classic traceroute tools differ from application traffic and hence can be treated differently by middleboxes within the network. We propose a new traceroute tool, called Service traceroute. Service traceroute leverages the idea from paratrace, which passively listens to application traffic to then issue traceroute probes that pretend to be part of the application flow. We extend this idea to work for modern Internet services with support for identifying the flows to probe automatically, for tracing of multiple concurrent flows, and for UDP flows. We implement command-line and library versions of Service traceroute, which we release as open source.

• Partner: Princeton University

• Contact: Renata Cruz Teixeira

• URL: https://github.com/wontoniii/service-traceroute