Using Traceroute
October 26, 2008 Posted by KP
This is a great tutorial on traceroute, including exercise and an online tool. I can traceroute to my server successfully from my desktop or VPS, but most online tools failed. The one in the above link also has a TCP mode, isn’t traceroute based on ICMP? Maybe that’s why other online tools failed – they only use ICMP mode.
Despite that I’m very faraway from the server, Windows tracert always prints only one hop, which seems very different from unix traceroute. Anyway, traceroute looks interesting, with more tests, it may help me understand the Internet better. Another good page on traceroute is here.
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