Tracert Command
A command issued from a windowed DOS prompt which shows the route
taken to a site. Useful to isolate bottlenecks
For example, to find out how busy the Netscape server is, I enter the following command:
D:\ >tracert home.netscape.com
The information returned by tracert is:
Tracing route to www14.netscape.com [198.95.249.78]
1 * * * Request timed out.
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 163 ms 152 ms 164 ms core-serial4-0.mv.best.net [205.149.170.41]
4 167 ms 175 ms 173 ms mae-west2.agis.net [198.32.136.16]
5 161 ms 169 ms 157 ms mae-west.SanFrancisco.mci.net [198.32.136.12]
6 187 ms 159 ms 216 ms -hssi3-0.SanFrancisco.mci.net [204.70.1.205]
7 181 ms 212 ms 190 ms borderx2-fddi-0.Seattle.mci.net [204.70.3.164]
8 170 ms 166 ms 150 ms netscape-(mcom)-ds3.SanFrancisco.mci.net [204.70
.158.122]
9 179 ms 159 ms 174 ms www14.netscape.com [198.95.249.78]
Note: ms stands for milliseconds, or thousands of a second.
Step 1: Means exactly what it says
Step 3: Entered the service provider
Step 5: Entered the MCI backbone in San Francisco
Step 7: It's not clear why we made a trip to Seattle only to return to SF
Step 9: Completed