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Traceroute is a command-line tool that can be used to identify all of the routing hops between two hosts by intentionally exceeding response time from every gateway to a destination. It's usefulness is shown when you need to find an <i>intermediate</i> server for information gathering, or for checking where in a network a site is failing or bottlenecking.

==Performing a Traceroute==

To perform from windows: from a [[MS-DOS|command prompt]] type

{{WindowsCMD|tracert domain.com}}

To perform in a [[Linux]]/Unix Terminal type

{{LinuxCMD|traceroute domain.com}}

==Example of Traceroute==
Windows:

  C:\Users\casey>tracert google.com
Tracing route to google.com [74.125.237.9]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     6 ms     4 ms     1 ms  192.168.0.1
  2    49 ms    33 ms    40 ms  123.123.123.123
  3    84 ms   173 ms   107 ms  172.11.11.11
  4    43 ms    84 ms    57 ms  172.22.22.22
  5     *       70 ms   136 ms  110.110.110.110
  6    86 ms    31 ms    33 ms  203.203.11.11
  7   170 ms     *       83 ms  203.203.22.22
  8   117 ms    68 ms    88 ms  74.125.50.1
  9   109 ms    69 ms    73 ms  66.249.50.1
 10    85 ms    73 ms   152 ms  72.14.237.47
 11     *      123 ms   107 ms  74.125.237.9

Trace complete.



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