How Traceroute Tracks Your Data's Journey Across the Network
whispering routes or asterisks along the way
The name Traceroute is a bit of a misnomer! While it traces the route, it doesn't actually trace the path in the physical sense but tracks how data moves through various routers over the network.
$ traceroute www.microsoft.com
Tracing route to e13678.dscb.akamaiedge.net [23.216.93.114]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms 1 ms <1 ms <devicena…