Reverse Traceroute with DisNETPerf, a Distributed Internet Paths Performance Analyzer

Traceroute is the most widely used Internet path diagnosis tool today. A major limitation of traceroute when the destination is not controllable by the user is its inability to measure reverse paths, i.e., the path from a destination back to the source. In this demo session, we showcase DisNETPerf, a new tool to perform reverse traceroute measurements. DisNETPerf is able to collect measurements from the server to the user for path performance monitoring and troubleshooting purposes, even when the server is not under the control of the experimenter. DisNETPerf uses RIPE Atlas, a largely distributed active measurements platform to perform traceroute measurements from any arbitrarily selected server in the Internet.