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Tracing routes in Windows

Tracing routes in Windows - Windows Server Tutorial

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Tracing routes in Windows

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- [Male Voice] A very useful troubleshooting tool for the TCPI protocol is the trace route command. It looks like tracert but it actually stands for trace route. In some operating systems they spell out the full name trace route. But in windows you'll see it's just tracert. So if we were to put in an ip address that we wanted to trace to, it would tell us how many hops away it is from where we are. So we can see that we're one hop away. Which means we are on the same LAN. It never left the network. And the name of the server that we were trying to trace to we see is DC1. If we were to do that same thing but we wanted to not have it resolve the name because it does move much faster that way. Then we would do a -d like you see here. So here it doesn't try to resolve the names. It just goes right to the IP address. When you're using this on the same LAN it doesn't make that much difference. But when you're doing this across many different routers then it could end up taking a long time…

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