README.md

Simple asynchronous traceroute

Dead simple module which provides asynchronous traceroute with asynchronous dns resolution.

Needs root privileges to be executed (for raw socket)

Installation

pip install aiotraceroute

Example

import asyncio
from aiotraceroute import traceroute

async def main(dest):
    # print hop by hop
    async for n, addr, host in traceroute(dest):
        print(n, addr, host)

    # Or run it without iterating
    tr = traceroute(dest)
    result = await tr.run()
    print(result)

asyncio.get_event_loop().run_until_complete(main("google.com"))

API

The traceroute function takes the following arguments:

• dest: Traceroute destination, can either be a hostname or an IP address.
• port: Destination port (optionnal, default: 33434)
• max_hops: Maximum number of hops before reaching final destination (optionnal, default: 30)
• timeout: Timeout between each hop (optionnal: default: 1s)
• packet_size: Pakcte size in bytes to send each time (optionnal: default: 60)

The run() method runs the traceroute and returns a list of tuples containing <hop_number>, <address> or None, <hostname> or None

Python versions

Python >= 3.6 are supported

Tests

This project uses unittest.

Run python3.6 tests/test_aiotraceroute.py