traceroute

Print the route packets trace to network host. More information: https://manned.org/traceroute.

• Traceroute to a host:

traceroute example.com

• Disable IP address and host name mapping:

traceroute -n example.com

• Specify wait time in seconds for response:

traceroute --wait=0.5 example.com

• Specify number of queries per hop:

traceroute --queries=5 example.com

• Specify size in bytes of probing packet:

traceroute example.com 42

• Determine the MTU to the destination:

traceroute --mtu example.com

• Use ICMP instead of UDP for tracerouting:

traceroute --icmp example.com