alt Hacker NewsIf I understood the post the author just takes the location of smallest ping as the winner. This seems like a very rudimentary approach. Why not do triangulation? If you take each ping time as a measurement of distance between two points, you should be able to ping from a random selection of IPs and from there calculate the location.
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jimaek • today at 2:36 PM
I talk a little about it in the article, but the main goal was to build something simple that works as proof of concept.
This brute force approach works much better than I expected as long as you have enough probes and a bit of luck.
But of course there are much better and smarter approaches to this, no doubt!
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Packets don't travel in straight lines.