BestTrace route tracing tool

This tool mainly checks the network line from your local machine to a given IP (your server).

When testing a line, besides ping, the most commonly used tool is route tracing. The common route-tracing tools are traceroute on Linux and tracert on Windows, but both only list IP addresses without describing them.

The visual route-tracing tool BestTrace, using its own IP database, gives a more detailed description of each hop — such as which AS number it belongs to and the physical location of the IP — and can even show it on a map, which is very intuitive.

The company that develops BestTrace also provides a web-based Traceroute tool with 418 global nodes, making it easy to trace routes from networks around the world to a target IP.

BestTrace supports Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS and Android — nearly all mainstream platforms.

BestTrace download: https://www.ipip.net/product/client.html

It's a very clean and simple piece of software. Here are two screenshots; the one below is the Windows interface.

Since there is no GUI on Linux, it uses a command-line form. After downloading and extracting, just give besttrace an executable permission. BestTrace provides quite a few parameters; run the following command to view the help.

./besttrace -h

Route-tracing example:

./besttrace -q 1 36.110.169.93

The image below is the command-line interface on Linux.