Overview
Traceroute is a network diagnostic tool that displays the route taken by packets across a network and measures any transit delays. Most operating systems support the traceroute command.
See the instructions for running traceroute on different operating systems below.
Run traceroute on Windows
- Open the Start menu.
- Click Run.
- To open the command line interface, type cmd and then click OK.
- At the command line prompt, type:
For IPv4 –> tracert yourdomain.com
For IPv6 –
> tracert -6 yourdomain.com
Run traceroute on Linux
- Open a terminal window.
- At the command line prompt, type:
For IPv4 –> traceroute yourdomain.com
For IPv6 –
> traceroute -6 yourdomain.com
3. You can copy the results to save to a file or paste in another program.
Run traceroute on Mac OS
- Search for the Network Utility application and open it.
- Click the Traceroute tab.
- Type the domain or IP address in the appropriate input field and press Trace.
- You can copy the results to save to a file or paste in another program.
Alternatively, you can follow the same instructions for running a traceroute on Linux (shown above) using the Mac OS terminal program, but for IPv6 use the command:
> traceroute6 yourdomain.com