nah bro, not necessarily fishy. Proxies and intermediate nodes can add hops depending on how they’re set up.
Try running a direct traceroute (no proxy) and compare. If the paths are way different, your traceroute test proxy might be routing through some weird middleman.
Also, check out looking glass servers from major ISPs—they let you run traceroutes from their end. Super handy for cross-verifying.
Try running a direct traceroute (no proxy) and compare. If the paths are way different, your traceroute test proxy might be routing through some weird middleman.
Also, check out looking glass servers from major ISPs—they let you run traceroutes from their end. Super handy for cross-verifying.