Access to the underlying os utils for the serverless deployment

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I’m working on a product called OptiSentry & in its previous version, it had an experimental feature called “Security Tracerouting” & to make the feature work, it needs an OS util called “traceroute”. All NPM packages (such as nodejs-traceroute) for tracerouting simply spawn a child process running the “traceroute” util. A way around it is called “Sloppy Tracerouting”, which is simply an implementation of traceroute util in Node.js, except that it gets blocked due to some firewall restrictions.

So if I were to implement the tracerouting feature through the serverless endpoint having access to the “traceroute” util over the on Netlify’s serverless platform, then how would I go about implementing it (if it can be implemented)? And how would look it?

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Hi @n00bgineer,

I don’t believe AWS Lambda has the traceroute utlility in the runtime. If you were to use it, you’d have to download the traceroute linux binary, add that to your Lambda bundle: How to Include Files in Netlify Serverless Functions and then run the traceroute commands.

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Thanks, would adding the linux binary for traceroute be enough? Thanks for this response. I’ll definitely try this out.

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I don’t know. Once you complete that step, maybe we’ll see if you get some errors and try to solve that.