Explain the working of Traceroute program and explain thefollowing output C:\\>t

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Explain the working of Traceroute program and explain thefollowing output

C:>tracert www.google.com

Tracing route to www.l.google.com [209.85.153.104]

over a maximum of 30 hops:

1    <1 ms    <1ms    <1 ms 202.164.41.2

2     7 ms     9ms    13 ms 192.168.253.101

3    42 ms    50ms    61 ms gw1.comeconnect.com[202.164.32.36]

4    11 ms    14ms    10 ms mantraonline.com [203.145.138.137]

5    71 ms    87ms    74 ms 125.21.167.25

6   114 ms    66ms    65 ms 72.14.196.101

7    73 ms    65ms    63 ms 216.239.43.228

8    91 ms    95ms    97 ms 64.233.174.153

9   91 ms    94ms    87 ms im-in-f104.google.com[209.85.153.104]

Trace complete.

Explanation / Answer

Traceroute tracks the path that a packet takes from the computerto a destination address. It also shows how many times your packetsare being rebroadcast by other servers until it gets to the finaldestination.

In the following example of the tracert command and its output,the packet travels through the 8 routers 202.164.41.2,192.168.253.101, 202.164.32.36, 203.145.138.137, 125.21.167.25,72.14.196.101, 216.239.43.228, 64.233.174.153 to reach thedestination 209.85.153.104

"Maximum of 30 hops" is how many routers the packet will gothrough to find the host. Default value is 30. This can be changedusing –h option.

tracert shows the IP address and hostname address of each hop,along with timing data for each hop.

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