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About Hurricane Electric BGP Toolkit
The Hurricane Electric BGP Toolkit is a web site for looking up how the internet is routed. It offers prefix and peer reports, a looking glass, a traceroute tool, exchange and bogon route reports, multi-origin routes, DNS and top host reports, RPKI and ASPA reports and internet statistics.
The home page shows your own IP address, the prefix it is announced in and your ISP's AS number. It suits network engineers, hosting operators and anyone curious about who announces an address block.
Strengths
- Many routing reports in one place, from prefixes to RPKI
- Looking glass and traceroute tools included
- Shows your own ASN and announced prefix on arrival
- Data updated daily
Limitations
- Plain interface that assumes knowledge of BGP terms
- Web only
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree to use on the web.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- Hurricane Electric
- Platforms
- Web
- How it runs
- Web application
- Works offline
- No
- Best suited for
- Network engineers looking up ASNs, prefixes and peering
- Categories
- Network tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Hurricane Electric BGP Toolkit
Compare allSoftware that can replace Hurricane Electric BGP Toolkit for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
bgp.tools
A web tool for exploring BGP routing, ASNs, prefixes and peering, with paid network monitoring.
bgp.tools offers near realtime BGP data, search by ASN, prefix, DNS name or MAC and a looking glass, with paid monitoring for your own networks.
RIPEstat
A web service for looking up routing, registration and geolocation data on IP addresses and ASNs.
RIPEstat draws on over 35 datasets with routing history, BGPlay visualisations and a Data API that is limited to non-commercial use.
Robtex
A free lookup service for domains, IP addresses, AS numbers and reputation data.
Robtex covers AS numbers and AS macros alongside domain, IP and reputation lookups, though it offers fewer routing reports such as RPKI.
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Globalping
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NextTrace
An open-source command-line traceroute tool that shows geolocation and ASN details for each hop.
ICANN Lookup
ICANN's web tool for looking up registration data for domain names and Internet number resources.
pmacct
A set of passive network monitoring tools that collect NetFlow, IPFIX, sFlow, packet and BGP data.
Check-Host
Online tool that checks a host with ping, HTTP, TCP, UDP and DNS from servers worldwide.
