What is “traceroute”?
In a network composed of many distinct LANs and WANs, one usually does not have a good idea what pathway packets take when flowing from hither to yon. “Traceroute” finds the actual path (i.e. the sequence of routers) a packet takes as it flows through the network. Traceroute is extremely powerful. It shows the incremental delay for each “hop” of the path, thus illuminating slow or congested links. Traceroute also can find sub-optimal routes, routing loops, and routing dead-ends. Dr. Watson ‘s traceroute has been enhanced beyond the version found on some UNIX workstations. Dr. Watson’s traceroute performs “MTU” discovery — in other words, it can find the maximum sized packet which can flow along the path without fragmentation. If fragmentation does occur, Dr. Watson will indicate where it is occurring.
(Last modified Aug 28, 2002 ) When you connect to your site through the Internet using your local Internet Service Provider there are several hosts that your connection goes through before it reaches our servers. If there is a problem at any one of these hosts along this route your connection to your site may not be successful. Traceroute is a tool that returns a list of the routers/hosts your signal is travelling through before it reaches our servers. This is a useful tool if you are not able to connect to your site. One way to troubleshoot this problem is to run a traceroute to your site. The traceroute will indicate if the problem with your connection lies with your Internet Service Provider or if there is a problem with one of our servers. You can run a traceroute from your local machine while connected to the Internet. You can copy and paste the results of your traceroute into an email and send this to support@allentech.net and our technicians can analyze this and advise. You can
