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| − | Traceroute is a command-line tool that can be used to identify all of the routing hops between two hosts. | + | 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. |
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| + | To perform from windows: from a [[MS-DOS|command prompt]] type | ||
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| + | <pre>tracert domain.com</pre> | ||
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| + | To perform in a [[Linux]]/Unix Terminal type | ||
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| + | <pre>traceroute domain.com</pre> | ||
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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 intermediate server for information gathering, or for checking where in a network a site is failing or bottlenecking.
To perform from windows: from a command prompt type
tracert domain.com
To perform in a Linux/Unix Terminal type
traceroute domain.com
