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1. Find a working traceroute server from traceroute.org 2. Run a traceroute from

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Question

1. Find a working traceroute server from traceroute.org 2. Run a traceroute from one of the links 3. Now run a traceroute from the command line to the host. 4. Include the output in a textile for both. 5. Why may the traceroutes be different? 6. What do the asterisks mean in a traceroute? 7. What is the role of an "internet backbone" company? 1. Find a working traceroute server from traceroute.org 2. Run a traceroute from one of the links 3. Now run a traceroute from the command line to the host. 4. Include the output in a textile for both. 5. Why may the traceroutes be different? 6. What do the asterisks mean in a traceroute? 7. What is the role of an "internet backbone" company? 2. Run a traceroute from one of the links 3. Now run a traceroute from the command line to the host. 4. Include the output in a textile for both. 5. Why may the traceroutes be different? 6. What do the asterisks mean in a traceroute? 7. What is the role of an "internet backbone" company?

Explanation / Answer

1)

In computing, traceroute is a computer network diagnostic tool for displaying the route (path) and measuring transit delays of packets across an Internet Protocol (IP) network. The history of the route is recorded as the round-trip times of the packets received from each successive host (remote node) in the route (path); the sum of the mean times in each hop is a measure of the total time spent to establish the connection. Traceroute proceeds unless all (three) sent packets are lost more than twice, then the connection is lost and the route cannot be evaluated. Ping, on the other hand, only computes the final round-trip times from the destination point.

Traceroute shows the step-by-step path that a connection takes to its destination.

2)

Find Out the Route to a Remote Host

You can run this form of the traceroute command from your user account.

The following output from the traceroute command shows the seven–hop path a packet follows from the local system nearhost to the remote system farhost. The output also shows the times for a packet to traverse each hop.

3)

Perform a traceroute on Windows

It is also possible to run a traceroute using your access domain or IP: