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Now I just have to figure out how to populate their example URL. Ahh the collectors are browsable [1] Thankyou! These go slow and time out a lot. will fire up a VM in the EU [1] - https://data.ris.ripe.net/rrc10/2026.05/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Free full BGP feed. IPv4 and IPv6"}, {"id": 749468051, "item_id": 46841753, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46841753", "by": "tallytarik", "date": "2026-01-31", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "use RIPE Atlas for some measurements", "excerpt": "Great post and a great little tool. Some of my experience using these techniques in production: 1. Trilateration mostly doesn't work with internet routing, unlike GPS. Other commenters have covered this in more detail. So the approach described here - to take the closest single measurement - is often the best you can do without prior data. This means you need a crazy high distribution of nodes across cities to get us", "context": "works for a geo data provider", "use_case": "latency measurements", "switched_from": "", "story": "We have ipinfo at home or how to geolocate IPs in your CLI using latency"}, {"id": 749391744, "item_id": 46836984, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46836984", "by": "jimaek", "date": "2026-01-31", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Atlas is great", "excerpt": "Atlas is great but it is focused more on academic research and professional use. Globalping offers real-time result streaming and a simpler user experience with focus on integrations https://globalping.io/integrations For example you can use the CLI as if you were running a traceroute locally, without even having to register. And if you need more credits you can simply donate via GitHub Sponsors starting from $1 They", "context": "", "use_case": "Network measurement probes", "switched_from": "", "story": "We have ipinfo at home or how to geolocate IPs in your CLI using latency"}, {"id": 744709872, "item_id": 46544367, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46544367", "by": "bauruine", "date": "2026-01-08", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "you can do it yourself without even needing an ASN using RIPE RIS.", "excerpt": "You don't have to be cloudflare for this kind of analysis you can do it yourself without even needing an ASN using RIPE RIS. https://www.ripe.net/analyse/internet-measurements/routing-information-service-ris/", "context": "", "use_case": "BGP route analysis", "switched_from": "", "story": "A closer look at a BGP anomaly in Venezuela"}, {"id": 740199504, "item_id": 46262469, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46262469", "by": "reincoder", "date": "2025-12-14", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "", "excerpt": "We are actually a sponsor of RIPE Atlas and have a bunch of credits. But I am not sure if we use them extensively. I think, as we own and operate the ProbeNet, much of the data collection efforts can be done through that in a scalable manner.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits"}]}