Traceroute is a common diagnostic tool for displaying the route and measuring any delayed packets across a network. The traceroute command is available by default on almost all modern operating systems, and for ones that it is not included on by default, it is usually simple to go about installing it.
Usage
Windows
- Click on the Start menu
- Then click
Run
- Type
cmd
to open a command prompt - At the prompt, type
tracert shelbydenike.com
and then hit enter - You will not be presented with the complete route from your computer to my site. Of course, you would change out shelbydenike.com for the domain you are trying to troubleshoot.
Mac OS
- Open up the terminal by going to Macintosh HD ->
Applications
->Utilities
-> Terminal - Once the terminal is open you will then type traceroute shelbydenike.com and hit enter.
- This will run the traceroute and you will see something like the following
traceroute: Warning: shelbydenike.com has multiple addresses; using 172.67.169.127
traceroute to shelbydenike.com (172.67.169.127), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 router (10.0.1.1) 7.477 ms 2.849 ms 2.849 ms
2 96.120.41.49 (96.120.41.49) 7.895 ms 12.578 ms 14.176 ms
3 68.87.185.25 (68.87.185.25) 11.939 ms 9.731 ms 9.978 ms
4 68.85.222.209 (68.85.222.209) 15.211 ms 22.203 ms 16.031 ms
5 162.151.20.165 (162.151.20.165) 15.496 ms 17.756 ms 20.341 ms
6 96.216.134.10 (96.216.134.10) 22.233 ms 20.226 ms 21.110 ms
7 be-32121-cs02.350ecermak.il.ibone.comcast.net (96.110.42.181) 27.152 ms 26.580 ms
be-32111-cs01.350ecermak.il.ibone.comcast.net (96.110.42.177) 29.853 ms
8 be-2312-pe12.350ecermak.il.ibone.comcast.net (96.110.33.218) 28.503 ms
be-2412-pe12.350ecermak.il.ibone.comcast.net (96.110.33.222) 26.912 ms
be-2403-pe03.350ecermak.il.ibone.comcast.net (96.110.37.30) 27.993 ms
9 173.167.56.42 (173.167.56.42) 48.152 ms 69.814 ms
50.248.117.166 (50.248.117.166) 74.799 ms
10 172.70.128.2 (172.70.128.2) 36.554 ms
172.70.176.2 (172.70.176.2) 20.078 ms
172.70.124.2 (172.70.124.2) 26.061 ms
11 172.67.169.127 (172.67.169.127) 34.553 ms 30.392 ms 23.991 ms
*Note that mine does give an error about the multiple addresses, this is due to me utilizing Cloudflare.