System Administration Guide: IP Services

How to Trace All Routes

This procedure uses the -a option of the traceroute command to trace all routes.

Type the following command on the local system:
% traceroute -ahost-name
You can run this form of the traceroute command from your user account.

Example 8–18 Tracing All Routes to a Dual-Stack Host

This example shows all possible routes to a dual-stack host.

% traceroute -a v6host.remote.com
traceroute: Warning: Multiple interfaces found; using 2::56:a0:a8 @ eri0:2
traceroute to v6host (2001:db8:4a3b::102:a00:fe79:19b0),30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  v6-rout86 (2001:db8:4a3b:56:a00:fe1f:59a1)  35.534 ms  56.998 ms * 
 2  2001:db8::255:0:c0a8:717  32.659 ms  39.444 ms *
 3  farhost.faraway.COM (2001:db8:4a3b::103:a00:fe9a:ce7b)  401.518 ms  7.143 ms *
 4  distant.remote.com (2001:db8:4a3b::100:a00:fe7c:cf35)  113.034 ms  7.949 ms *
 5  v6host (2001:db8:4a3b::102:a00:fe79:19b0)  66.111 ms *  36.965 ms

traceroute to v6host.remote.com  (192.168.10.75),30 hops max,40 byte packets
 1  v6-rout86 (172.16.86.1)  4.360 ms  3.452 ms  3.479 ms
 2  flrmpj17u.here.COM (172.16.17.131)  4.062 ms  3.848 ms  3.505 ms
 3  farhost.farway.com (10.0.0.23)  4.773 ms *  4.294 ms
 4  distant.remote.com (192.168.10.104)  5.128 ms  5.362 ms *
 5  v6host  (192.168.15.85)  7.298 ms  5.444 ms *