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traceroute

Usage:



Description:

Hmm. I think that describes its use pretty well. What does it do? Oh. Well it sends UDP packets with the time-to-live set to 1, then 2 then 3 and so on. This causes the routers that these packets are sent through to complain after the requisite number of hops. I.E. the first router complains about the first packets, with TTL set to one, the second about the packets with TTL set to two etc. Traceroute catches the complaints and times how long it took. This not only shows you how your packets are getting to the destination, but sometimes, where the congestion is as well. There's a lots better explanation in the source, so if you want more, UTSL.

This version of traceroute is used in traceroute.cgi, which isn't required, just handy on occasion, and in do-traceroute, which you don't need unless you're curious about your routing and how it's changing over time. The only extra options that do-traceroute uses are the -A option to look up the ASN (Autonomous System Number) and the -O option to look up the DNS owner.


Last updated Tue Apr 16 19:09:27 PDT 2002 by <thomas.erskine@sourceworks.com>.
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