traceroute Command Examples

Print the route packets trace to network host. More information: https://manned.org/traceroute.

• Traceroute to a host:

traceroute {{example.com}}

• Disable IP address and host name mapping:

traceroute -n {{example.com}}

• Specify wait time in seconds for response:

traceroute {{[-w|--wait]}} {{0.5}} {{example.com}}

• Specify number of queries per hop:

traceroute {{[-q|--queries]}} {{5}} {{example.com}}

• Specify size in bytes of probing packet:

traceroute {{example.com}} {{42}}

• Determine the MTU to the destination:

traceroute --mtu {{example.com}}

• Use ICMP instead of UDP for tracerouting:

traceroute {{[-I|--icmp]}} {{example.com}}