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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.

Performing a Traceroute

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

Terminal

localhost:~ $ traceroute domain.com

Example of Traceroute

  • Windows
C:\WINDOWS\System32\cmd.exe

C:\WINDOWS\> 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.