`traceroute` - print the route packets trace to network host

traceroute [-n] host

Options you will use

-n: numeric

Examples

$ traceroute -n github.com

hop by hop

Gotchas

* * * means that hop did not answer the probe. It is not necessarily where the packets stop.

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