traceroute & traceroute6

Question 1

traceroute

Answer 1

traceroute tracks the route packets taken from an IP network on their way to a given host. It utilizes the IP protocol’s time to live (TTL) field and attempts to elicit an ICMP TIME_EXCEEDED response from each gateway along the path to the host.

Question 2

tracerout -4

or

tracerout -6

Answer 2

IPv4 and IPv6

Question 3

tracerout -F www.asfd.com

Answer 3

-F, Do not fragment packet.

Question 4

traceroute -f

Answer 4

-f, Start from the first_ttl hop

Question 5

traceroute -g 192.168.1.1 asdf.com

Answer 5

-g, Route the packet through a gate.

Question 6

tracerout -m 5 asdf.com

Answer 6

-m max_ttl, Set the max number of hops for the packet to reach the destination.

Question 7

traceroute -n asdf.com

Answer 7

-n, Do not resolve IP addresses to their domain names.

Question 8

traceroute -q 1 adsf.com

Answer 8

-q, Set the number of probes for each hop

Question 9

tracerout asdf.com 100

Answer 9

This sets the packet length, the default is 60.

Question 10

tracerout asdf.com -w 1

Answer 10

-w, Sets the wait time for a response from each packet.