Re: How do you "TRACEROUTE"?

Just to clear a few little things up... You do not have to cd anywhere to do
a traceroute. It is a program in the %system_root% folder and will therefore
run from whatever directory you happen to be in. Also, the DOS version has a
few flags that might be helpful:

Usage: tracert [-d] [-h maximum_hops] [-j host-list] [-w timeout]
target_name

Options:
    -d        Do not resolve addresses to hostnames.
Normally it takes the traceroute quite a while to do this, and if you don't
care about the names of all the servers/routers it's hitting, use this and
it will only display the computer's IP address.

    -h maximum_hops        Maximum number of hopes to search for
target_name.
Example: -h 50 will go through 50 computers before giving up. default is 30.

    -j host-list        Loose source route along host-list. Frankly I don't
know what this one does :-) perhaps someone can enlighten us?

    -w timeout        Wait timeout milliseconds for each reply. Pretty
self-explanatory, no?
Example: -w 300 will display Request Timed Out if the computer in question
can't send a reply ping in under 300 ms.

If you have a UNIX box of any sort, the like command is traceroute and has a
few more options.
Hope that helps your tracing!

Nathan

----- Original Message -----
From: Gary Churchman
To: hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org ; Kym Jones
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 5:58 PM
Subject: Re: How do you "TRACEROUTE"?


You can do a TRACEROUTE by simply going to the DOS black-screen, cd.. until
you have a C:\> prompt, then type in [tracert IP.ADD.RES.S] (without the
square brackets and use the numbers for the IP address or the
www.whatever.com/net/org/etc.) and it will give you all the information you
desire without using a fancy (or expensive) tool/program.  HTH

Gary Churchman
Director, Production and Design
MedSeek
gchurchman(at)medseek.com
(805) 694-3110


-----Original Message-----
From: Kym Jones <kjones(at)adam.com.au>
To: hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Date: Thursday, February 17, 2000 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: How do you "TRACEROUTE"?


>
>
>I don't know if this is of any use to anyone, but you can do a traceroute
>and lots of other things on an IP address from any of the mirror sites,
here :
>
>http://www.network-tools.com/
>
>Kym
>
>
>At 07:32 AM 02/17/2000 -0500, Nancy Whittley wrote:
>>Well, I was going to do a traceroute on my system to remind myself
>>how to do it, if I remember correctly it is done from a dos prompt.
>>However when I click on my MS Dos prompt I get the dos box, that
>>is big, black and empty all but a flashing cursor in the middle of the
box.
>>No command prompt or anything.  Now what is up with that? Just one more
>>of the many strange things going on with this computer.
>>Gee guess I need to dump and reload this system! Groan!
>>
>>Nancy
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: Peter Newton <c-newton(at)ihug.co.nz>
>>To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
>>Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 5:00 AM
>>Subject: How do you "TRACEROUTE"?
>>
>>
>>> Thanks J.P.Ambrutis and others for your help on the
>>> "Hosting Sugestions" thread. J.P my curiosity is
>>>  drawn towards this "traceroute" that you are able to
>>> do, looks like a "must have".
>>>
>>> I would appreciate any help in showing me HOW
>>> this can be done.
>>>
>>> Many Thanks
>>> Peter Newton
>>>
>
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