Tracert (or traceroute on a Unix-like OS) is a tool that, as the name suggests, traces the route to a destination host. Enter the following command:
tracert www.google.com
You should be able to see the connection leaving the network of your Internet Service Provider (ISP), and entering the domain 1e100.net, which is Google's domain. 1.0 x 10100 is a googol, which is their namesake. The following screenshot shows the output that you might see for this trace:
Next, let's trace a route to Australia by running the following command with the same AWS host name as our earlier example, as follows:
tracert ec2.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com ...
