IPv4 Traceroutes Datasets

An IPv4 Traceroute dataset contains traceroutes to most of the IPv4 Internet from a single location. Different datasets are from different global locations. Destination are logically all of IPv4, with at least /20 granularity, and finer granularity of there are global routes to the prefix.

Each dataset collects one quarter (three months) of data from one source location.

Full details of the datasets and desintation selection are in the dataset format page.

Format

We document the format of IPv4 traceroutes data here.

About and Obtaining Address Datasets

Our Publications About This Work

Technical documents using this data:

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• Xiao Song and John Heidemann 2025. Poster: Rediscovering Recurring Routing Results. Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (Maidson, Wisconsin, USA, Nov. 2025), 1074–1075. [DOI] [PDF] [Dataset] Details

Getting this data

For the detailed formats of each dataset, please refer to the corresponding README file at our datasets.