TRACERT: Tracking Packets
If you can’t PING a remote host, it could be that your echo packets are getting held up along the way. To find out, you can use the TRACERT (trace route) command:
tracert [-d] [-h maximum_hops] [-j host-list] [-w timeout] target_name
-d
Specifies not to resolve IP addresses to hostnames.
-h maximum_hops
Specifies the maximum number of hops to search for the target_name. (The default is 30.)
-j host-list
Specifies loose source route along the host-list.
-w timeout
Waits the number of milliseconds specified by timeout for each reply.
target_name
Specifies the hostname of the destination computer.
TRACERT operates by sending ICMP echo packets with varying TTL values. Recall that TTL places a limit on the number of hops ...
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