Earlier today I read the news from NetBlocks (via Reuters) that since the weekend parts of the Ukrainian internet traffic are rerouted via Russia. To be precise, it’s about Ukrainian Kherson Oblast, which is occupied by Russia since March.
Now I wanted to trace the internet route myself and ideally visualize it. Here I came across the service of GeoTraceroute, which does a great job in visualizing traceroutes (aka. tracert). For the trace, I chose Frankfurt as starting point, and skynet.ua, the local internet provider in Kherson, as the endpoint.
Of course, you can also include the URL of GeoTraceroute as a web element in your Power BI report or Tableau dashboard and parameterize it for dynamic interactions. You can see the format as in my example:
https://geotraceroute.com/?node=2021&host=skynet.ua
#Visual traceroute showing that #Ukraine's internet traffic from the occupied Kherson Oblast is now re-routed via #Russia
Original news @netblocks: https://t.co/995aeo5b6H
How to blog post: https://t.co/4JhLM2fnlo#visualanalytics #geoanalysis #dataviz pic.twitter.com/DqUKxFTS2y— Alexander Loth (@xlth) May 3, 2022
