traceroute traces the route taken by packets over a TCP/IP network. It is used as a network debugging tool to show where packets are being lost along the route.
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visual traceroute similar "yougetsignal.com", how to update div on demand/periodically
this is my first question in a forum ever i think ;-).
I will try to be as clear as possible with the question.
I´m trying to build a visual traceroute similar to that on yougetsignal.com by kirk ouimet.
It is actually working already using bash…

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Why is my ICMP sequence number not incrementing? (C Socket Programming)
is it possible someone can help me workout why my ICMP sequence number isn't incrementing on every request, when this was used as a ping program it would increment the sequence number on each ping.
Also does anyone have any idea why my Round Trip…

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filter a traceroute output
I need some help about how to filter the data returned by a traceroute.
Introduction
I'm running a bash script that checks for the IP returned by this command:
IP=`traceroute -m 2 www.test.com | awk -vOFS='\t' '{if (NR==3){print $2}}'`
echo "$IP:…

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Get list of traceroute hops with php
shell_exec("traceroute IPaddress) returns traceroute to IPaddress (IPaddress), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
How do I retrieve the actual list of hops so I can tell where a problem occurs?

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Parse data from traceroute output executed though PHP
My main intention is to parse the data returned from a traceroute command executed through PHP
$output = shell_exec("traceroute www.xxx.com");
echo $output;
the returned output is something like this
Tracing route to
www.x.com [173.xx.xx.xx] over…

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IPv6 Raw sockets. Cannot receive any packet on SIO_RCVALL socket. Win2008
I'm using Windows Server 2008 R2 for production purposes, so it must be no problem for me to utilize raw socket functionality. But instead I got a problem receiving data on inbound RCVALL socket. What am I doing:
m_recv_socket = socket( AF_INET6 ,…

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traceroute output analysis linux - router ip address
I am interested in knowing the network topology. Specifically I wanted to know the ip address of the router as the 'outer world' sees it and NOT 192.168.1.1, for that I used the traceroute command which gave the following output:
..~\ $ traceroute…

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How Traceroute can know domain name of Hops?
I'm studying the ICMP protocol and the tool traceroute. I don't understand how can traceroute look up the domain names of Hops if in the ICMP datagram only the IPs can be found. How does it work?
Thank you!

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Trying to trace the time it takes for my website hosted in New Zealand to be accessed from the US
I live in New Zealand and I just started a website which I also have hosted in New Zealand as novazeal.com and novazeal.co.nz. I am hoping to target clients overseas though as well as in New Zealand so I trying to decide whether to start a second…

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Trouble reaching client website from my computer with traceroute
I've been working on a client site for a few months now and I'm suddenly having a lot of trouble accessing it.
Chrome tells me:
This webpage is not available
Google Chrome's connection attempt to [client] was rejected. The website may be down, or…

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Creating an ICMP traceroute in Python
I am trying to implement an ICMP based Traceroute in Python. I found a very helpful guide ( https://blogs.oracle.com/ksplice/entry/learning_by_doing_writing_your ) that has allowed me to create a UDP based Traceroute so just needs modification.…

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Traceroute command "names" in different OS's?
I wish to use "traceroute" command in my java application. Unfortunately in Windows It is called "tracert". Is there any other "funny" names that I may fell upon in different OS's?
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I'm interested only in Linux, Windows and Mac distributions.

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Traceroute using tcp packets reach the destination in just one hop
I'm studying some useful unix networking tools like traceroute and I found a strange behaviour using tcp packets instead of using udp or icmp ones.
In particular, if I try to traceroute whatever website the system reaches the destination in just one…

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Tracert command request timed out windows 10
C:\Windows\system32>tracert google.com
Tracing route to google.com [142.250.194.14]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms XXXXXXXXXXX
2 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms XXXXXXXXXXX
3 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms XXXXXXXXXXX
4 …

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How traceroute can receive an action from destination?
In traceroute, we know when destination (host) receives a packet with TTL=1, the host throws an error and does not delay.
So how can traceroute calculate distance (delay) between source and destination?

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