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System Administration Guide: IP Services

ProcedureHow to Find Out the Route to a Remote Host

  1. Type the following to discover the route to a remote system:


    % traceroute destination-hostname

    You can run this form of the traceroute command from your user account.

Example 7–17 Using the traceroute Command to Show the Route to a Remote Host

The following output from the traceroute command shows the seven–hop path a packet follows from the local system nearhost to the remote system farhost. The output also shows the times for a packet to traverse each hop.


istanbul% traceroute farhost.faraway.com
	traceroute to farhost.faraway.com (172.16.64.39), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
	 1  frbldg7c-86 (172.16.86.1)  1.516 ms  1.283 ms  1.362 ms
	 2  bldg1a-001 (172.16.1.211)  2.277 ms  1.773 ms  2.186 ms
	 3  bldg4-bldg1 (172.16.4.42)  1.978 ms  1.986 ms  13.996 ms
	 4  bldg6-bldg4 (172.16.4.49)  2.655 ms  3.042 ms  2.344 ms
	 5  ferbldg11a-001 (172.16.1.236)  2.636 ms  3.432 ms  3.830 ms
	 6  frbldg12b-153 (172.16.153.72)  3.452 ms  3.146 ms  2.962 ms
	 7  sanfrancisco (172.16.64.39)  3.430 ms  3.312 ms  3.451 ms