January 2008
Intermediate to advanced
624 pages
14h 16m
English
The Tracert.exe tool uses ICMP Echo or ICMPv6 Echo Request messages to determine the path—the series of routers—that unicast IPv4 and IPv6 traffic takes from a source host to a destination host. Tracert tests reachability, name resolution, network latency, routing loops, and other issues.
When you tracert a destination IP address, the default behavior is to trace the route and report the round-trip time, the near-side router IP address, and the DNS name corresponding to the near-side router IP address. When you tracert a name, normal name resolution techniques resolve the name to an IP address before the ICMP Echo messages are sent. If TCP/IP for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista is unable to resolve the name to an IP address, ...