On 2014-12-26, Michael <lesniewskis...@gmail.com> wrote: > Apologies, I must've missed something that was mentioned in the man pages, > in OpenBSD it seems that addresses are printed for each attempt rather than > (the other OS' tested, Win, Debian, Android) that seem to take the first > returned name for example > It just seemed odd as both the man pages on the other os' and OpenBSD state > that "three probes (by default) are sent at each ttl setting and a line is > printed showing the ttl, address of the gateway and round trip time." > It is just the first time I have seen this as other os that I have had > experience of show things differently (as below).
At least one of the ISPs showing in your traceroute is using multipath routing, some of the packets you are sending take a different path to others. traceroute is simply showing you which routers returned those packets. If other traceroute programs don't show this, then either they are doing something different that causes the same path to be taken for all packets (perhaps they are using icmp instead of udp) or perhaps they are just hiding some of the information.
