Flying with traceroute

You are now ready to leave your house to go to work. You must go through different streets that eventually lead to your destination, right? Well, this is very similar to when you try to reach a host (website) on the internet; there is a route that you take that starts with your default gateway and ends with your destination.

You can use the traceroute command to trace the route to any destination. The general syntax of the traceroute command is as follows:

traceroute destination

For example, you can trace the route from your machine to google.com by running the following command:

root@ubuntu-linux:~# traceroute google.com
traceroute to google.com (172.217.1.14), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1 172.16.1.254 (172.16.1.254) 15.180 ms 15.187 ms 15.169 ms
 2 207-47-195-169.ngai.static.sasknet.sk.ca (207.47.195.169) 24.059 ms
 3 142.165.0.110 (142.165.0.110) 50.060 ms 54.305 ms 54.903 ms
 4 72.14.203.189 (72.14.203.189) 53.720 ms 53.997 ms 53.948 ms
 5 108.170.250.241 (108...