traceroute is a tool you can use to trace the route of packets from your computer to another computer. It lets you see each step that your packets take along the way. For example, the following is the result of running traceroute from my computer in Massachusetts to “example.com”: You can see that it took 8 hops to get from my computer to the destination IP (93.184.216.34), and you can see the associated timing for three different attempts for each step.
