Wiktionary
n. (context computing English) The route taken by packets over an IP network. vb. (context computing English) To measure the route taken by packets over an IP network and any delays in transit.
Wikipedia
In computing, traceroute is a computer network diagnostic tool for displaying the route (path) and measuring transit delays of packets across an Internet Protocol (IP) network. The history of the route is recorded as the round-trip times of the packets received from each successive host (remote node) in the route (path); the sum of the mean times in each hop is a measure of the total time spent to establish the connection. Traceroute proceeds unless all (three) sent packets are lost more than twice, then the connection is lost and the route cannot be evaluated. Ping, on the other hand, only computes the final round-trip times from the destination point.
The command is available on a number of modern operating systems. On Apple Mac OS, it is available by opening "Network Utilities" and selecting "Traceroute" tab, as well as by typing the "traceroute" command in the terminal. On other Unix systems, such as FreeBSD or Linux, it is available as a command in a terminal. On Microsoft Windows, it is named . Windows NT-based operating systems also provide PathPing, with similar functionality. For Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) the tool sometimes has the name or .
Traceroute is a 2016 Austrian/American documentary film directed by Johannes Grenzfurthner. The autobiographical documentary and road movie deals with the history, politics and impact of nerd culture. Grenzfurthner calls his film a "personal journey into the uncharted depths of nerd culture, a realm full of dangers, creatures and more or less precarious working conditions", an attempt to "chase the ghosts of nerddom's past, present and future." The film was co-produced by art group monochrom and Reisenbauer Film. It features music by Kasson Crooker, Hans Nieswandt, and many others.
Traceroute is a computer network diagnostic tool.
Traceroute may also refer to:
- Traceroute (film), a 2016 documentary film
Usage examples of "traceroute".
Because of the load it could impose on the network, it is unwise to use traceroute from automated scripts which could cause that program to send out huge numbers of queries.
In the case of this traceroute command, any time greater than 3 seconds causes an * to be printed out.
You can pretty much expect that links in the middle of a long traceroute will be big computers owned by the bigger companies that form the backbone of the Internet.
Probing around with dig and traceroute leads me to discover lots more computers in that domain.
Commands that can dredge some of them up include the Unix commands traceroute, dig, and who.
Network administrators used tracerouting to track packets of data travelling between a source and its destination, similar to a sonar ping by a submarine.
Then Curtis ran a traceroute on the site, which showed him which road on the information superhighway he was using to connect with the site.