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Real-time BGP routing data and DNS/IP lookups
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Hi HN, I built a free BGP looking glass and IP/ASN lookup tool. You can paste in an IP (v4 or v6), a domain, or an AS number and get whois, routing info, and the global BGP view.Try:https://god.ad/view/8.8.8.8https://god.ad/view/2606:4700::1111https://god.ad/view/AS13335https://god.ad/view/google.comCan also be added to mobile homescreen as PWA
HN · launched Apr 23, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 0 views
Niche: network monitoring and diagnostics tools · 193 launches, 11 in the last 7 days ▼ -35% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Data infrastructure
- Developer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Partial While the web dashboard and lookups are standard web dev, aggregating real-time global BGP routing tables requires connecting to BGP route collectors (like RIPE RIS or Route Views) or peering multi-session MRT feeds.
What it would actually take: A production implementation requires consuming multihomed BGP MRT dumps or live BMP (BGP Monitoring Protocol) streams from global looking glasses or tier-1 IXP route collectors, indexing billions of prefix announcements in ClickHouse, and running a resilient IP/ASN query microservice. It requires network engineering expertise in autonomous system topologies and low-latency network telemetry indexing.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Korru
Concerns raised: URL protocol handling - https:// prefix causes failures
Feature requests: Strip or prevent protocol prefixes from URL input
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 122 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #121 of 123 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 167 days after the earliest competitor.
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