On 04/08/2012 01:27 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 04/07/2012 08:33 PM, jdow wrote:
>>>
>>
>> "mtr cnn.com" is actually much quicker to get to the last hop so you
>> know the IP addresses involved.
>
> I was under the impression that he was trying to find the latency of the 
> satellite
> link and traceroute would give him the IP of the first router.  And, judging 
> by his
> response, he probably was.
>
> BTW, I used to use traceroute (Or, more accurately, the Windows version, 
> tracert.)
> daily when I did senior level tech support for an ISP to find out where the 
> latency
> on various sites was coming from.  It can be a surprisingly useful tool, 
> within its
> limits.

And in some cases you have to resort to using tcptraceroute.


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