Traceroute

[antipodean]

Has anyone played with traceroute?

On *nix/mac systems in a 'DOS' box type "traceroute bad.horse"

On a windows system, in a DOS box type "tracert bad.horse"

enjoy.

 

[prpr]

It's not a DOS box. It's a command line shell.

 

[Trev]

Nit Picker

 

[Black Hole]

What's traceroute?

 

[antipodean]

What's traceroute?

It traces the route IP packets take to get between your machine and the named machine.

But if you run the example given above you get a surprising result that will make you laugh.

 

[antipodean]

Nit Picker

Yeah, I wondered how long it would take someone to say that about my post. Technically these days the 'DOS Box' on windows isn't DOS either ...

 

[Black Hole]

It traces the route IP packets take to get between your machine and the named machine.

But if you run the example given above you get a surprising result that will make you laugh.

Why not just save us the bother and post the output, if you think it's that amusing!

 

[prpr]

Technically these days the 'DOS Box' on windows isn't DOS either ...

It hasn't been for about 15 years.

 

[MikeSh]

Why not just save us the bother and post the output, if you think it's that amusing!

That would spoil the anticipation of wondering if you'll end up with some massive malware event

 

[Black Hole]

Too much excitement.

 

[EEPhil]

No wonder the internet gets so blooming slow when people set up long routes around many computers and tie up IP addresses just to produce this. Life's too short - and I'm not going to get back the time I've just wasted. Ho, hum!