USING TRACERT ON MICROSOFT WINDOWS Print

On Windows-based systems, use the tracert program to test the path to a server. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Open a DOS command window. To do this, click Start, click Run, type cmd, and then press Enter.
2. At the command prompt, type the following command. Replace example.com with the domain that you want to test:

   tracert example.com

3. Interpret the output from tracert:

   • Tracert displays each hop, indicated by a number in the left column. It also displays the domain and IP address at each hop, as well as the time spent. For example, the following output shows the path to an thobson server:

     C:\Users\Thobson-Support>tracert thobson.com
     
     Tracing route to thobson.com [72.52.178.67]
     over a maximum of 30 hops:
     
       9   149 ms   148 ms   149 ms  be12497.ccr41.lon13.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.56.129]
      10   221 ms   334 ms   326 ms  be2982.ccr31.bos01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.1.117]
      11   370 ms   223 ms   251 ms  be3599.ccr21.alb02.atlas.cogentco.com [66.28.4.237]
      12   434 ms   347 ms   283 ms  be2878.ccr21.cle04.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.26.129]
     
     Trace complete.
     

     You can examine the times between each hop to look for places where the connection “hangs”. In some cases, tracert may also time out, which is indicated by an asterisk (*).