Internet Monitoring by Traced Routes

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Howard

Hi All,

I live in New Zealand, which has very expensive high speed internet (e.g.
full rate DSL from the monopoly supplier costs four hours of the average
wage for 30 mins of useage) A slower dsl plan (rate limited to 128Kbps) is
available, but really only worth using for local (ie within country)
traffic. This service is also data capped at 5 gigs, and you pay 12 hours of
hourly wage per gig if you go over your cap, so users have to be _very_
careful about where they're downloading from.

The problem is how can one tell whether one is accessing local traffic? Many
..nz websites are hosted in the US. Even APNIC (http://www.apnic.org/) is not
100% reliable as some local companies have retrenced/expanded overseas and
taken their IPs with them

New Zealand is an island nation, and therefore international traffic has to
pass through one of the international gateways. e.g. when I tracert to
pricelessware.org (see routing at end of post) my traffic passes through
p-c1.akbr1.global-gateway.net.nz [202.50.245.237] or other similar routers.

So my question for this newsgroup is: does anyone know of some software
which will monitor all my TCP/IP traffic, log the IP address and trace the
route to see if it passes through one of user selected set of routers?

Thanks in advance.
 
Howard said:
Hi All,

I live in New Zealand, which has very expensive high speed internet (e.g.
full rate DSL from the monopoly supplier costs four hours of the average
wage for 30 mins of useage) A slower dsl plan (rate limited to 128Kbps) is
available, but really only worth using for local (ie within country)
traffic. This service is also data capped at 5 gigs, and you pay 12 hours of
hourly wage per gig if you go over your cap, so users have to be _very_
careful about where they're downloading from.

The problem is how can one tell whether one is accessing local traffic? Many
.nz websites are hosted in the US. Even APNIC (http://www.apnic.org/) is not
100% reliable as some local companies have retrenced/expanded overseas and
taken their IPs with them

New Zealand is an island nation, and therefore international traffic has to
pass through one of the international gateways. e.g. when I tracert to
pricelessware.org (see routing at end of post) my traffic passes through
p-c1.akbr1.global-gateway.net.nz [202.50.245.237] or other similar routers.

So my question for this newsgroup is: does anyone know of some software
which will monitor all my TCP/IP traffic, log the IP address and trace the
route to see if it passes through one of user selected set of routers?

Thanks in advance.
Click to expand...

Maybe a little OT, but here goes. I suspect that considering the population
and sophistication of your great nation, many people are asking the same
question. So why wouldn't someone set up a proxy server that would show
all internet traffic as being from a .nz server?

Well, I did a quick google search and there is a plethora of .nz proxy
servers.

I may be off-base but I hope it helps,

Dave H.
 
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