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by andrew_granados

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What is a traceroute and briefly describe the purpose of this system utility. Give two situations where traceroute would be useful, and include an example of the command you would use.

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by rindi1

This sounds like an exam question, I'm sure you can find the necessary info yourself!

by dkzgambo

Lets say u want to know the ip address/computer name of a computer on the network, what udo is type in what u know of that particular machine and the rest will be given to.

e.g i have a machine on the network whose name is COMPUTER1.i want to know the ip address so i just type on the prompt
C:\>tracert computer1
the result willshow the milliseconds taken totrace, the name and ip address.

The same applies if i kno the ip address but need the computer name. instead of the name i will put an ip address

Hope u will be helped

Kadende

by yetanotheradmin

As dkzgambo@yahoo.com said, but don't forget tyhe main function is to allow you to see the route taken. This can sometimes be surprising if you look at physical location but neccessary due to traffic/downed routers etc.

by wlbowers

It is called Google.

You would be stunned at the amount of information you could get in just the amount of time it took you to type the question in this forum.

I got 20,000 hits.

Lee

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