[Lalo-ATX]

Traceroute isn’t “ping,” it’s exploiting TTL manipulation to generate ICMP unreachables.

You could do the long list of things you listed. Has anyone done a high-quality implementation of those things? And checked the results? I’d be interested in seeing that.

[observationist]

Yes, traceroute isn't ping. I was describing how you might get high quality geolocation for ip addresses, which in turn could be used in conjunction with traceroute and other tools to map things with a high degree of confidence, since they were bringing up how bad geolocation usually is.

As far as I know, there aren't any public tools which do what I described - it's a weekend's worth of scripting up a proof of concept (or an hour, with AI) and it'd be questionable for open source. You might run afoul of various regulations around the world, and you'd probably get hate mail and legal challenges trying to host something like it. Github and Sourceforge would probably not be willing to hear out any challenges or takedown requests over it.

All that to say, it's probably too much of a hassle to try to make a big open implementation with it, especially since AI can whip it up fairly trivially and even give you a fancy OSM integrated dashboard for whatever you might want to use it for.