How to do a traceroute

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  • Diva
    Senior Member
    • Oct 2008
    • 295

    How to do a traceroute

    Replace the ip with the server you want to ping. it will write a txt file to C: that you can copy/paste.

    Provides a ping and path of each nameserver to ip specified, and writes a txt file called tracert to c:
    tracert 74.221.208.75 > c:trace.txt

    Pings ip specified with 32 bytes of data and writes a txt file called ping.txt to c:
    ping 74.221.208.75 > cing.txt

    Provides the path of each nameserver in numerical order to ip specified, pings the path with 100 bytes of data for 250 seconds,
    and writes a txt file called pathping to c:. Shows Lost/sent data when complete.
    pathping 74.221.208.75 > cathping.txt

    Pings the IP specified with 32 bytes of data 50 times, writes a txt file called ping50.txt to c:
    ping -n 50 74.221.208.75 > cing50.txt

    Running a Traceroute on Windows XP:

    1) Go to Start (start button on the lower left of the desktop)
    2) Choose 'Run'
    3) Type: "cmd" (no quotes)
    4) This should bring up a DOS prompt. Once there, type: "tracert domain.com" (without quotes)

    This should result in a series of hops from your computer to the server you are tracing

    example: tracert -h 30 69.65.45.172

    the -h 30 is the number of hops, depending on where you are located, you may not reach the ending ip address. From my house it's 20 hops to the 172 server.
    C:UsersShadivar>tracert -h 30 69.65.45.172

    Tracing route to 69.65.45.172 over a maximum of 30 hops

    1 10 ms 2 * * * Request timed out.
    3 12 ms 9 ms 8 ms ge-1-20-ur01.arlington.va.bad.comcast.net [68.87.129.217]
    4 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms te-9-1-ur02.arlington.va.bad.comcast.net [68.87.128.158]
    5 8 ms 9 ms 9 ms te-9-3-ur01.reston.va.bad.comcast.net [68.87.128.162]
    6 11 ms 9 ms 13 ms te-9-2-ur01.manassas.va.bad.comcast.net [68.87.129.113]
    7 9 ms 9 ms 11 ms te-7-2-ar01.manassascc.va.bad.comcast.net [68.87.129.189]
    8 20 ms 18 ms 19 ms po-10-ar01.howardcounty.md.bad.comcast.net [68.87.129.29]
    9 18 ms 21 ms 21 ms po-10-ar02.whitemarsh.md.bad.comcast.net [68.87.129.34]
    10 23 ms 23 ms 23 ms te-0-3-0-1-cr01.philadelphia.pa.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.90.77]
    11 27 ms 42 ms 28 ms pos-0-9-0-0-cr01.newyork.ny.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.85.14]
    12 25 ms 24 ms 23 ms 204.70.144.1
    13 25 ms 26 ms 25 ms cr2-pos-0-7-3-1.newyork.savvis.net [204.70.195.97]
    14 51 ms 56 ms 52 ms cr1-loopback.chd.savvis.net [208.172.2.70]
    15 47 ms 47 ms 47 ms ber1-tengig-9-0-0.Chicago.savvis.net [204.70.195.114]
    16 59 ms 212 ms 206 ms ber1-vlan-241.chicagoequinix.savvis.net [204.70.196.22]
    17 55 ms 54 ms 55 ms v52-er1.Chi2.Servernap.net [66.252.3.114]
    18 55 ms 54 ms 54 ms v990-ae0.er1.Chi1.Servernap.net [69.39.239.178]
    19 56 ms 63 ms 56 ms pos2-1.csr1.Chi3.Servernap.net [69.39.239.170]
    20 56 ms 54 ms 55 ms 69.65.45.172

    Trace complete.

    As you can see everything is pretty good till chicago then my ping doubles. I also see that comcast don't like me by putting me on the "bad" routers.


    Apple users (probably not in here)
    1. Double-click the Hard Drive icon > Applications folder > Utilities folder > Network Utility program.
    2. Select the trace route tab and enter the domain name
    3. Press the
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