>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.
Or I'll say it my way; They are dumbing down how the internet works, for well, you decide who they are doing that for. In general every packet takes own way, and presuming otherwise is a trap.
