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Traceroute

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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

C:\WINDOWS\System32\cmd.exe

C:\WINDOWS\> tracert domain.com

To perform in a Linux/Unix Terminal type

traceroute domain.com