Ben Dowling (@coderholic) on Piclur: The @ipinfo probe network just crossed 400 cities! We're now at 929 servers, in 127 countries.Every new server we add helps drive further improvements to the quality and accuracy of our data, and provides deeper insights into what the internet looks like from the perspective of… / Piclur

Ben Dowling

Feb 14

The @ipinfo probe network just crossed 400 cities! We're now at 929 servers, in 127 countries. Every new server we add helps drive further improvements to the quality and accuracy of our data, and provides deeper insights into what the internet looks like from the perspective of…

coderholic's tweet image. The @ipinfo probe network just crossed 400 cities! We're now at 929 servers, in 127 countries.

Every new server we add helps drive further improvements to the quality and accuracy of our data, and provides deeper insights into what the internet looks like from the perspective of…

Anurag Bhatia

@anurag_bhatia

Feb 15

Interesting, what the servers do? Do they trace or measure latency towards large number of end points? How do they figure out location in case when ICMP is not responding?

Ben Dowling

@coderholic

Feb 15

Yep, ping and trace. We try to get an rtt in various other ways when icmp doesn’t respond. The probe network data is just one of many inputs into our final geolocation data set - and it’s the input into many other data sets we have too.