Glamorous Traceroute for iPhone

Many people know the excellent utility MTR (MyTraceroute) for Linux, which combines the advantages of traceoute and ping (under Windows there seems to be WinMTR , although I have not tried it). This is a diagnostic tool to not just run a trace once, but specifically to monitor the quality of the channel to the host. For example, it can be run for an hour or two and trace whether there has been at least one lost packet during this time.

Habrayuzer happybyte (Pavel Novikov, founder of the Belarusian hosting provider Extmedia) wrote Nice Trace for iPhone [ iTunes link , $ 0.99], which is even better than MTR, plus a colorful iPhone-style interface with graphics, animation, countries flags and other things.

Problem nodes on the screen change color, depending on the percentage of lost packets. When a packet is lost, the node blinks. In general, not the host trace, but the whole show. The program works surprisingly fast (in the sense that it does not get stuck on the problem nodes).
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